semantic-api 0.0.21

A simple python API for creating, inserting, querying, and processing semantic data. This requires semantic services that are not included here

Semantic API

Versions

0.0.21 : Intial version with only the API for insertion and query.

Feature	Element	Status	Comment
semantic data insertion capability		✅	complete
semantic data query capability		✅	complete
documentation of semantic and semantic.client methods and functions		❌	in-process
typelib		❌	in-process
type tools		❌	in-process
database tools		❌	in-process
chain tools		❌	in-process

Install

pip3 install semantic-api

Use

Import

from semantic.api.semantic_api import semantic
from semantic.common.utils import defineSchemaId
from semantic.api.config import brokerIP, dbUri, batch_size

Schema context configuration

An ontology is assumed to built from a set of ontology clusters and identified by a schemaName, and a schemaVersion.

This schemaName-schemaVersion pair defines a schema instance in the database which is further identified by instanceName since it is common practice to have multiple logical instances in the database for the same ontology.

The function defineSchemaId(schemaName, schemaVersion, instanceName, dbUri) from semantic.common.utilsdefines and instance of the type SchemaID that is used to bind with the semantic context in the database.

The extra dbUri parameter provides the domain information of the schema and data and the JSON-LD @context that is returned in queries.

The Semantic API shall be instantiated before using api.narration or api.chain methods as these require a connection to the MQTT broker. Note that a database with the schemaName-schemaVersion-instanceName is assumed to be running along with a semantic service (out of scope of this project).

api = semantic( brokerIp, defineSchemaId(schemaName, schemaVersion, instanceName, dbUri), batch_size

Parameter	Use	Suggestion
brokerIP	MQTT Broker IP	use remote broker for project, default from config is 'localhost'
schemaName	identifying name for schema	according to defined schemas
schemaVersion	schema version	according to defined schemas
instanceName	database instance for schemaName-schemaVersion	suggest user defined instance assuming this has been created and instantiated with schema
dbUri	db IP:port URI	use default from config defined as 'http://127.0.0.1:6363/'

Database client

The API supports a lower level database client semantic.clientthat is useful for database configuration tasks. Currently, only two methods are exposed on client but will be filled out and adequately documented to match the current service API. A commnand line version of this client libary will also be provided as the command line is more useful for maintenance than programtic use, as per the current node.js based semantic-client.

semantic.client methods	return
getSchemaId()	SchemaID instance in service
setSchemaId(schemaName, schemaVersion, instanceName)	sets SchemaId instance (assumning current dBUri)

The following section describes the usage of the API.

1 Semantic API

2 Background

3 RDF and Types

4 Editing Ontologies