StYLiD

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Quick Start

Contents

Creating Your StYLiD Account
Sharing Data

Submitting Data
Editing/Deleting Data

Sharing Concepts

Creating New Concepts
Modifying Existing Concepts
Editing/Deleting your concepts

Concept Cloud
My Concept Collection

Adding Concepts
Removing Concepts

Aligning Concepts in a Table View

Viewing/Updating alignments

Advanced Search

SPARQL query

Machine Readable Data

1. Creating Your StYLiD Account

StYLiD is free! You may easily create your account using the "Register" feature. You need to specify a valid username, email address and a password. After creating your account you can login to StYLiD and contribute data and concepts.

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2. Sharing Data

a. Submitting Data

1. Click the "Submit new data" tab

2. Select a concept appropriate for the type of data you want to share. You will see three tabs

All concepts
My Concept Collection
Concepts Created by Me

3. If your concept collection is empty or you have not created any concept yet, open the "All concepts" tab and choose an appropriate concept.

4. Press "continue". If you selected a concept from the "All concepts" tab, a message will be shown that the concept will be added to your concept collection. Click OK. The concept will be added to your concept collection only when you finish submitting the data.

5. A data entry form for the selected concept will be shown. Fill in the form with your data.

a. You can also enter multiple values for any field. Click on "add more.." to add more input boxes.

b. If you have a URI for any value, you may enter it by clicking "enter URI". A separate input box for the URI will appear below. Values with URIs will be shown as hyperlinks when published.

You may easily enter the Wikipedia URI for the value and make your data more informative and useful! When you click on the Wikipedia icon, it searches the Wikipedia for the text entered above and displays the result page in a pop-up window. Copy or drag the URI from the address bar of this window to fill in the URI in the data form.

6. Choosing from suggested range.

a. If there is a suggested range of values for any field, click on an appropriate suggested concept.

b. A pop-up window will appear with data instances of the selected concept. You may filter the data entering a relevant keyword in the "filter" box.

c. Click on "Add" to add individual data instances. You may add multiple instances. The title and URI of the added instance will be automatically entered in the form.

7. Enter tags and a description if required.

8. Click on "Preview and Submit"

9. A confirmation page with the data you have entered will be shown. If you need to modify something click "Modify". Otherwise click "Submit".

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b. Editing/Deleting Data

You can edit or delete only the data submitted by yourself. When you are logged in "admin links" appears along with every data instance that you submitted.

1. Click on "admin links"

2. Click on "Edit data" or "Delete post"

3. Update the data and submit.

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3. Sharing Concepts

a. Creating New Concepts

If the system does not have a suitable concept for your data you can easily create your own concept. Anyway it is better to check out the existing concepts before defining a new one from scratch. Even though such a concept already exists, you may create your own version of the concept if the existing definition does not satisfy you. You may define your version from the scratch of modify from the existing concept (see Modifying existing concept). Following are the steps for creating a new concept from scratch.

1. Click on the "Submit a new Concept" tab.

2. Type in a concept name and press "continue". Note that spaces, underscores and quotes are not allowed in the concept name.

3. Define a list of attributes for the concept. For each attribute,

a. Input a label.

b. Enter some description about the attribute to help users understand it (optional).

c. You may also suggest some concepts as the range of values for the attribute.

i. Click on "Suggest range for values".

ii. A pop-up window will appear showing the concept cloud. If any concept name matches the label of the attribute, it will be automatically highlighted.

iii. You may pick all the concepts suitable for the value range.

iv. Picked concepts will be listed below the attribute label. You may also remove any picked concept by clicking "remove".

d. You can go on adding attributes by clicking "Add more attributes"

4. Enter some description for your concept (optional)

5. Click "submit"

6. Confirm the details of the concept you submitted. If you need to make modifications click "Modify". Otherwise, click "Submit concept".

7. You will be taken to the "Submit new data" page. Now you may start entering data using your new concept as described in the previous section.

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b. Modifying Existing Concepts

You do not always need to create concepts from scratch. You may modify an existing concept to suit your need and create your own version of the concept as follows.

1. Click on the "Modify existing Concept" tab

2. Select a concept that you want to modify and click "Continue"

3. Update the details of the concept as described above and click "Submit"

4. Confirm the details of the concepts. If you need to make modifications click "Modify". Otherwise, click "Submit concept".

5. You will be taken to the "Submit new data" page. Now you may start entering data using your version of the concept.

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c. Editing/Deleting your concepts

1. Click on the "Modify existing Concept" tab

2. Click on your concept that you want to edit/delete

3. A box will appear with 3 options.

Update the existing concept
Define a new version for the concept
Delete this version of the concept.

Choose the first option if you want to edit the existing version of your concept. Choose the second option if you want to make a new version of the concept. Choose the third option if you want to delete the concept (Note that you can only delete a concept if it has no data instances).

4. Edit the concept as described above. Note that if there are existing data instances of the concept, the attribute labels cannot be edited and the attributes cannot be deleted. To edit the attribute labels either all data instances should be deleted first or a new version of the concept should be created (selecting the third option)

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4. Concept Cloud

All the concepts created by different users are visualized as a Concept Cloud. Click on "Concept Cloud" in the top navigation bar to see the concept cloud. Click on any concept to browse the data instances of the concept. You can filter the list by entering a keyword in the "filter" box. You may switch between "Record view" and "Table view".

Different versions of a concept with the same name are combined together into a single consolidated concept. Click on the consolidated concept to browse all the data instances of the constituent concepts that form the consolidated concept.

Click on the "+" sign beside any consolidated concept to expand it into a sub-cloud of the constituent concepts. All the versions of the concept defined by different users will be shown. Further, different versions of the concept defined by the same user are grouped together. Click on the user name to browse the data instances of the concept version defined by a single user.

If you are logged in three tabs will be shown in the concept cloud page.

All concepts: Shows all concepts defined by everyone.
My Concept Collection: see this
Concepts Created by Me: Shows only the concepts defined by you.

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5. My Concept Collection

If you are logged in, open the "My Concept Collection" tab in the Concept Cloud page. Concepts created by you or concepts adapted by you to form your own versions are automatically added to your concept collection. You may add any useful concept to your collection or delete concepts from your collection as explained below.

a. Adding Concepts

1. Click on "Add" in the "My Concept Collection" tab

2. A concept cloud with all concepts will be shown with a checkbox to the right of each concept. Check the concepts you want to add to your collection.

3. Click "Submit"

b. Removing Concepts

1. Click on "Remove" in the "My Concept Collection" tab

2. A concept cloud with only the concepts in your collection will be shown. Check the concepts you want to remove from your collection.

3. Click "Submit"

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6. Aligning Concepts in a Table View

When you browse the data instances of a consolidated concept you need to align the constituent concepts first so that the system can produce a uniform table view.

1. Click on a consolidated concept from the concept cloud (a consolidated concept has a "+" sign to the right).

2. Click on "Table view"

3. If no one has aligned this consolidated concept yet, a tabular form interface will be shown. The columns of the table show the attributes of individual constituent concepts. Each row shows an alignment of matching attributes among these concepts. The system automatically suggests some possible alignments by comparing the labels.

4. Complete the alignment by adding alignments not suggested by the system or correcting the ones that are not right. You may add more rows by clicking "Add more attributes".

5. Check the last column that shows the name of the combined attributes. These names will be used as the table header fields of the unified Table view. You may update these labels if needed. You may even delete a combined attribute name if you do not want it in the combined table view.

6. Click "Submit"

a. Viewing/Updating alignments

If you or someone has already aligned the constituents in a consolidated concept, you do not need to align the concepts again to produce a uniform view. However you may view or edit the alignments by clicking "Edit combined attributes" in the Table view. You can also view the alignments in RDF format by clicking "RDF" in the alignment page.

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7. Advanced Search

With StYLiD you can search data more effectively and accurately by entering the search criteria in a structured way.

1. Click on "Advanced Search" from the top navigation bar.

2. Enter the concept name you want to search (For e.g., if you want to search hotels enter "hotel")

3. Enter a list of desired attribute and value pairs (For e.g., if you want to search hotels located in Tokyo with rating 5, you would enter (location, tokyo), (rating, 5)).

4. You may go on adding search criteria by clicking "Add more.."

5. Click "Search". You will be shown a list of results that match all the criteria specified by you.

a. SPARQL query

If you have the knowledge of SPARQL you may even query the RDF database directly by entering your own SPARQL query.

1. In the "Advanced Search" page click on "Enter your own SPARQL query".

2. Enter your SPARQL query and click "Submit".

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8. Machine Readable Data

StYLiD publishes your data in machine readable formats - RDF and RDFa. However, you need not worry about it at all. It is for machines.

An RDFa aware browser would be able detect such contents and offer suitable operations for you. Many RDFa tools and plug-ins are becoming available. You may find some at

We may expect more powerful tools to be available in the future.

A Semantic Clipboard would allow you to copy structured machine understandable RDFa data from StYLiD into useful desktop applications or web-based forms. Find out more at

You may copy and paste the embedded structured data elsewhere and distribute it on the Web so that anybody can pick it up easily.

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