README NOTES

Magpie / Advanced Semantic Platform for Learning

Notes for installing Magpie/ASPL
1.	If you downloaded this README from the web, please, download Magpie / ASPL installer from the URL http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/kweb, and save the executable on your computer.
2.	You should log in with sufficient privileges in order to install all components of Magpie/ASPL; i.e. typically as an “Administrator”.
3.	After downloading, please, close all windows of Internet Explorer, so that the software can be properly installed.

Notes for running Magpie/ASPL first time
1.	Magpie/ASPL will active when you launch an Internet Explorer on your computer. It will come pre-loaded with the “semweb-studies” ontology, which will show as a toolbar with colourful buttons (see figure)

2.	You can check whether you have the correct version of Magpie/ASPL installed by clicking on the little arrow next to Magpie logo/button. You should see menu structured as in the figure above. By clicking on the “About…” option you should also see that this is version 1.2.0 with support for ASPL (see figure).

3.	OPTIONAL: The software has also a few additional preferences set; e.g. to load the last used lexicon, to open services in fully browsable windows, etc. If you need to change these preferences, click on the little arrow next to Magpie logo/button and choose option “Preferences” (see figure)

Notes for understanding available services
There are four categories of items in the “semweb-studies” ontology: 
1.	SW technologies … this category contains phrases denoting languages, protocols and similarly that are used in the Semantic Web (SW) domain (e.g. RDF, XML,…)
2.	SW activities … this category contains phrases denoting operations or tasks that are typically carried out with respect to Semantic Web technologies (e.g. annotation, knowledge representation,…)
3.	Other SW topics … this category contains phrases and words related to the Semantic Web but typically coming from the broader context (e.g. data or information)

Each of these three categories has the following services that are accessible by first clicking on an appropriate class button to highlight phrases relevant to that particular class and then right-clicking on a specific, highlighted item in the web page to invoked menu of available services:
o	Service “Explain concept” … access short description or definition of a particular topic, word or phrase (e.g. RDF)
o	Service “Find related learning resources” … dynamically access REASE knowledge base that contains ~30 learning units on different aspects of Semantic Web and find those units relevant to the topic you click on
o	Service “Find in ACM Library” … dynamically retrieve a wealth of material known to ACM Portal and Guide that relates to the topic you clicked on
o	Service “People active in…” … dynamically generate a list of people that can be further browsed using Magpie/ASPL that are related to the topic you click on. Note, not all topics are processed for this processed, because some are too generic to be of any informative value!

4.	Community … this category contains people and researchers related to the Semantic Web that were automatically harvested using web mining.
The following services apply to people highlighted in your web pages:
o	Service “Find co-citing community” … access a subset of CiteSeer and find people who appear as references of the person you clicked on
o	Service “Find co-authors” … access a subset of CiteSeer and find people who appear together with the person you clicked on; these people are clustered based on common publications
o	Service “Shares institution with” … a sometimes helpful service that finds people who happen to be in the same institution as the person you clicked on
o	Service “Authored learning material” … dynamically access REASE knowledge base and find units that were contributed by the person you clicked on
o	Service “Find in digital libraries” … dynamically retrieve top publications published by ACM that were authored by the person you clicked on