AskOmics

AskOmics is a visual SPARQL query builder for RDF database. One of its advantages is that you don't need to know how to use SPARQL or the structure of your database.

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Getting started

Requirements

If you want to use AskOmics, you will need :

• Python 3.2 (or greater)
• Pyramid 1.5 (or greater)
• SPARQLWrapper 1.6.4 (or greater)

AskOmics also uses the following bundled libraries:

• Bootstrap
• D3.js
• jQuery
• jQuery-File-Upload

Browser compatibility

| Chrome | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 38+ | 13+ | Not supported | 25+ | 7.1+ |

Install Pyramid

Create your Virtual Python Environment and activate it

$ virtualenv -p python3 ~/askomics-env
$ . ~/askomics-env/bin/activate

Install Pyramid Into the Virtual Python Environment

$ pip install "pyramid==1.5.7"

Install SPARQLWrapper

$ pip install "SPARQLWrapper==1.6.4"

Install AskOmics in your Virtual Python Environment

To be able to launch AskOmics, you will need to install it in your virtual environment.

If you want to develop AskOmics:

$ cd rdf-visual-query-builder/
$ python setup.py develop

If you don't want to develop AskOmics:

$ cd rdf-visual-query-builder/
$ python setup.py install

Launch AskOmics server

Once installed, you will be able to launch AskOmics in 2 ways depending of your needs (development or production).

$ pserve development.ini 		# Add --reload if you don't want to relaunch your server everytime you make a change.

or

$ pserve production.ini

Using AskOmics

Once launched, AskOmics will be available at http://localhost:6543/

Running tests

AskOmics comes with some unit and functional tests. To run them, you will first need to install some python packages:

$ pip install nose webtest

Then, to run the tests do the following:

$ nosetests askomics/test