[kepler-dev] Location of Annotation File and Parameterizing AnnotationEngine/OntologyCatalogy

[Shawn Bowers]

It sounds like you are/were using an old version of kepler.

In the current version (which is now in flux because of the looming release 
schedule), ontologies are being stored in a particular configuration directory; 
and new files can be added (without changed any code).

Also, as soon as the object cache code is installed (Chad is working on this 
now), we will move to a newer system for storing annotations, in which 
annotations are being stored directly with the actor/component, so you won't 
need to have an annotation file at all.

I think, actually, in the new system, the annotation file might be generated 
from the actor annotations themselves, which might explain the annotations file 
in .kepler.

-shawn



Jianting Zhang wrote:
> I updated Kepler on my personal laptop. Everything seems work fine 
> exception that I kept on getting the following message
>  
>      [java] java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Documents and 
> Settings\JIANTING ZHANG\.kepler\annotations (The system cannot find the 
> file specified)
>  
> It seems that the location of annotation file has been changed from 
> {kepler}/configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/annotations.owl to 
> {home}/.kepler\annotations. I guess {home}/.kepler\annotations is 
> automatically generated. But how? Any documenation?
>  
> My work involves developing different actor libraries (Moml file, 
> ontology, annotation) from exisiting GIS packages, such as GRASS and 
> ArcGIS. Everytime when I want to put them into Kepler, I need to modifiy 
> AnnotationEngine and OntologyCatalogy under 
> {kepler}/src/org/ecoinformatics/seek/sms. My question is whehter it is 
> possible to specify the annotation/ontology files in "configuration" 
> just like specifiying Moml file for actors, so that I don't have to 
> modify the source.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Jianting