Semantic Connector

The Semantic Connector module is the central module that is needed to add external semantic services (PoolParty servers, GraphSearch instances, SPARQL endpoints) to your Drupal integration. The Semantic Connector is where you would configure your connection to a PoolParty server and through its API it allows interconnections between other PoolParty Drupal modules.

These are the main modules using the Semantic Connector:

• PowerTagging
• PoolParty GraphSearch
• PoolParty Taxonomy Manager
• Smart Glossary

How to use

The recommended release of this module is the latest 2.x version. Most of the main features of the Semantic Connector module were rebuilt in version 2.x, therefore updating from version 1.x to 2.x is not possible.

Requirements:

• The Semantic Connector module uses cURL HTTP requests to communicate with its supported APIs (except SPARQL), so make sure cURL is installed on your server.
• If you want to work with SPARQL-endpoints, the EasyRDF-library needs to be installed (which itself requires PHP 5.3 or newer): Download the EasyRDF library (http://www.easyrdf.org/downloads) and add EasyRdf.php and all the other files and folders to "sites/all/libraries/easyrdf".

Usage:

• Install as usual (see https://drupal.org/documentation/install/modules-themes/modules-7 for further information).
• If you want to see an overview over all your configured connections or need to change any detail of any connection directly, you can do that at "admin/config/services/semantic_connector".
• Install one of the modules using the Semantic Connector or create your own one using the hooks and APIs offered by the Semantic Connector
• As soon as more than one Drupal module using the Semantic Connector is installed, you can configure the way these modules interconnect with each other at "admin/config/semantic-drupal/semantic-connector/config" (Configuration -> Semantic Drupal -> Semantic Connector -> Configuration).

Additional details on how to use this module can be found in the Drupal Module Documentation Space.

Sponsorship

This module is sponsored by Semantic Web Company (SWC)
Visit us at http://www.semantic-web.at/.