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The SALSAH GUI Ontology

Overview

The SALSAH GUI ontology provides entities that can be used in user-created ontologies to indicate to SALSAH (or to another GUI) how data should be entered and displayed.

The SALSAH GUI ontology is identified by the IRI http://www.knora.org/ontology/salsah-gui. In the Knora documentation in general, it is identified by the prefix salsah-gui, but for brevity, we omit the prefix in this document.

Properties

guiOrder

: Can be attached to an owl:Restriction representing a cardinality in a resource class, to indicate the order in which properties should be displayed in the GUI. The object is a non-negative integer. For example, a property with guiOrder 0 would be displayed first, followed by a property with guiOrder 1, and so on.

guiElement

: Can be attached to a property definition to indicate which SALSAH GUI element should be used to enter data for the property. This should be one of the individuals of class Guielement described below.

guiAttribute

: Can be attached to a property definition to provide attributes for the GUI element specified in guiElement. The objects of this predicate are written in a DSL with the following syntax:

object = attribute name, "=", attribute value ;

attribute name = identifier ;

identifier = letter , { letter } ;

attribute value = integer | decimal | percent | string | iri ;

percent = integer, "%" ;

iri = "<", string, ">" ;

The attributes used with each GUI element are described below under Individuals.

guiAttributeDefinition

: Used only in the salsah-gui ontology itself, as a predicate attached to instances of Guielement (see Individuals), to specify the attributes that can be given as objects of guiAttribute when a given Guielement. is used. The objects of this predicate are written in a DSL with the following syntax:

object = attribute name, [ "(required)" ], ":", attribute type, [ enumerated values ] ;

enumerated values = "(", enumerated value, { "|", enumerated value } ")" ;

attribute name = identifier ;

attribute type = "integer" | "decimal" | "percent" | "string" | "iri" ;

enumerated value = identifier ;

identifier = letter , { letter } ;
Enumerated values are allowed only if `attribute type` is `string`.
If enumerated values are provided for an attribute, the attribute
value given via `guiAttribute` must be one of the enumerated values.

Classes

Guielement

: The instances of this class are individuals representing SALSAH GUI elements for data entry.

Individuals

Colorpicker

: A GUI element for selecting a color. A property definition that uses this element may also contain a guiAttribute predicate whose object is a string in the form "ncolors=N", where N is an integer specifying the number of colors to display.

Date

: A GUI element for selecting a date.

Geometry

: A GUI element for selecting the geometry of a two-dimensional region.

Geonames

: A GUI element for selecting a Geonames identifier.

Interval

: A GUI element for selecting a time interval in an audio or video recording.

List

: A GUI element for selecting an item in a hierarchical list (see ListValue). A property definition that uses this element must also contain this guiAttribute predicate:

-   `"hlist=<LIST_IRI>"`, where `LIST_IRI` is the IRI of a
    `knora-base:ListNode` that is the root node of a hierarchical list.

Pulldown

: A GUI element for selecting an item in a flat list (see ListValue) using a pull-down menu. A property definition that uses this element must also contain this guiAttribute predicate:

-   `"hlist=<LIST_IRI>"`, where `LIST_IRI` is the IRI of a
    `knora-base:ListNode` that is the root node of a hierarchical list.

Radio

: A GUI element for selecting an item in a flat list (see ListValue) using radio buttons. A property definition that uses this element must also contain this guiAttribute predicate:

-   `"hlist=<LIST_IRI>"`, where `LIST_IRI` is the IRI of a
    `knora-base:ListNode` that is the root node of a hierarchical list.

Richtext

: A GUI element for editing multi-line formatted text.

Searchbox

: A GUI element for searching for a resource by matching text in its rdfs:label. For DSP-API v1, a property definition that uses this element may also contain this guiAttribute predicate:

-   `"numprops=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the number of
    describing properties to be returned for each found resource.

For DSP-API v2, the `guiAttribute` has no effect.

SimpleText

: A GUI element for editing a single line of unformatted text. A property definition that uses this element may also contain a guiAttribute predicate with one or both of the following objects:

-   `"size=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the size of the
    text field.
-   `"maxlength=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the maximum
    length of the string to be input.

Slider

: A GUI element for choosing numerical values using a slider. A property definition that uses this element must also contain a guiAttribute predicate with both of the following objects:

-   `"min=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the minimum value
    of the input.
-   `"max=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the maximum value
    of the input.

Spinbox

: A GUI element for choosing numerical values using a spinbox. A property definition that uses this element may also contain a guiAttribute predicate with one or both of the following objects:

-   `"min=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the minimum value
    of the input.
-   `"max=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the maximum value
    of the input.

Textarea

: A GUI element for editing multi-line unformatted text. A property definition that uses this element may also contain a guiAttribute predicate with one or more of the following objects:

-   `"width=N"`, where `N` is a percentage of the window width (an
    integer followed by `%`).
-   `"cols=N"`, where `N` is an integer representing the number of
    colums in the text entry box.
-   `"rows=N"`, where `N` is an integer specifying the height of the
    text entry box in rows.
-   `"wrap=W"`, where `W` is `soft` or `hard` (see
    [wrap](https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sec-forms.html#element-attrdef-textarea-wrap)).

Checkbox

: A GUI element for choosing a boolean value using a checkbox.

Fileupload

: A GUI element for uploading a file.


Last update: 2022-07-20