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Recommendations

┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Recommendations |
│--------------------------------------------│
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐ │
│ │ Authentication │ │ RGPD │ │
│ └──────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘ │
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐ │
│ │ Ontology driven │ │ Vocabularies │ │
│ └──────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

For all the important functionalities or improvements that we were unable to implement in Carto4CH for the moment (due to lack of time or energy, or because they were too complex), we have documented recommendations.

Voir Recommendations

Authentication / SSO

┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SSO / OIDC / SOLID-OIDC |
│--------------------------------------------│
│ Application Server OIDC |
│ ┌───────────────┐ │
│ │ ┌─────────┐ │ │
│ │ | Login │ │ ┌─────────┐ │
│ │ └─────────┘ │ <====> | OIDC │ │
│ │ ┌─────────┐ │ └─────────┘ │
│ │ | pass │ │ │
│ │ └─────────┘ │ |
│ └───────────────┘ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The integration into the 4CH cloud stage enabled us to try using a second OIDC/CAS server.

You can find details of how authentication works here: Technical Documentation > Authentication

In the end, we identified areas for improvement in SemApps, giving users a choice of different authentication modes.

You can find these recommendations in the section Recommendations > Authentication

and Standards and concepts > OIDC

Ontology driven

┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ What if ontology drove the application? |
│--------------------------------------------│
│ Ontology Application |
│ ┌───────────────┐ │
│ │ O---O---O │ │
│ │ / / \ | │ ┌─────────┐ │
│ │ O---O---O-O │ <====> | App │ │
│ │ \ / \| │ └─────────┘ │
│ │ O-O---O--0 │ |
│ └───────────────┘ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

An old dream of (IT) ontologists is to be able to manage / parameterise / control the operation of an application directly via one or more ontologies.

This is a long-term objective for SemApps, but it is still a long way off.

In this portal, we will therefore only give recommendations on this subject.

We'll talk about what's missing in SemApps, the improvements that have been made and what we hope to see in the future.

See Recommendations > Ontology-driven

Maintenance of a Carto4CH serveur

┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ Maintenance |
│-----------------------------------│
│ ___ ___ │
│ / \ ┌───\ / \ │
│ |\___/| | \ |\___/| │
│ | | <= | | => | | |
│ | | | | | │ |
│ \___/ └─────┘ \___/ |
│ |
└───────────────────────────────────┘

We have added a new "Maintenance" section, to explain how to maintain a Carto4CH server in production.

This includes :

  • access to the triplestore web interface
  • compacting the database
  • backing up triplestore data

See Maintenance

Integration dans le cloud de 4CH

┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ Carto4CH ===> Cloud 4CH |
│-----------------------------------│
│ ___ │
│ ___ /___\ │
│ / \ / \ │
│ | | ===> /_______\ |
│ \___/ / \ |
│ └───────────┘ |
│ |
└───────────────────────────────────┘

Nous avons tenté d'intégrer notre projet Carto4CH dans le cloud 4CH.

C'était très intéressant de comprendre leur architecture, nous avons appris de l'expérience, mais nous avons manqué d'anticipation. En effet, nous avons pris trop de retard et le projet s'est arrêté fin décembre 2023, avant que nous puissons terminer l'intégration.

Nous avons quand même pu en ressortir des bonnes pratiques au niveau :

  • du SSO / Authentification
  • du mode de déploiement attentu dans un cloud par l'équipe 4CH.

Nous espérons pouvoir la reprendre lorsque la suite de 4CH sera mise en place.

Vous retrouverez ce que nous avons retenu :

Internationalisation of user interfaces

┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ Internationalisation |
│--------------------------------│
│ ┌───────────────────┐ │
│ | ENGLISH v | │
│ └───────────────────┘ │
│ | ENGLISH │ |
│ | FRENCH │ |
│ └─────────────────┘ │
└────────────────────────────────┘

In order to prepare a presentation of the demonstrator to the European team of the 4CH project, we have, as initially planned, translated all the interfaces.

The back office and My-competences are now in English by default, with the option of switching to French in the top right-hand menu. The default language can be set when the server is deployed.

To understand the technical operation of this feature, visit the Internationalisation page.

Technical documentation

┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ Technical documentation |
│--------------------------------│
│ SOLID │
│ SemApps │
│ Demonstrator │
└────────────────────────────────┘

Now that the demonstrator is up and running in version 1.0, we've been able to complete the technical documentation, to help developers understand how the demonstrator works, how to deploy their own server, etc.

We haven't added the links to the many development PADs (which are more detailed) so as not to pollute the documentation, but don't hesitate to ask us for access.

You can find all these technical details in the Technical documentation.

General mapping = Mirror server visualization

┌────────────────────────────────┐
│ General mapping |
│ Mirror server visualization |
│--------------------------------│
│ ┌────────────────────┐ │
│ │ O---O---O O-O │ │
│ │ / / \ |/ \ │ │
│ │ O---O---O-O O O │ │
│ │ \ / \|/ \ / │ │
│ │ O-O---O-O-O O │ │
│ └────────────────────┘ │
│ | │
│ v │
│ ┌───┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌───┐ │
│ | A | -> | Mirror | <- | B | │
│ └───┘ └──────────┘ └───┘ │
└────────────────────────────────┘

Following the visualisation of instances A and B, we added the mirror server to the demonstrator. This server regularly synchronises the data from servers A and B in a sort of "cache", making it possible to offer a network visualisation containing the data from server A and server B.

The mirror server is simply another SemApps server that we have configured to synchronise with the other two servers. To do this, it uses the Activity Pub protocol.

To access this visualisation, go to the Demonstrator Page.

To understand the technical operation of this user interface, go to the Visualisation.

Visualising network mapping for one instance

┌────────────────────────┐
│ Visualisation |
│ in network |
│------------------------│
│ ┌────────────────────┐ │
│ │ O---O---O O-O │ │
│ │ / / \ |/ \ │ │
│ │ O---O---O-O O O │ │
│ │ |\ / \|/ \ / │ │
│ │ O-O-O---O-O-O O │ │
│ │ \ / / |/ / │ │
│ │ O --O---O-O │ │
│ └────────────────────┘ │
└────────────────────────┘

To facilitate the visualisation of Carto4CH mapping data, we are proposing a network representation, as initially planned.

This shows the advantage of having interoperable data by having a third user interface accessing the same data.

Firstly, we will carry out a visualisation by Carto4CH instance.

This shows the players, projects, skills, positions, contributions, training and qualities, linked together by the relationships provided for by the HeCoontology.

To access this visualisation, go to the Demonstrator page.

To understand the technical operation of this new interface, go to the Network visualisation.

Publication of the ontology in HTML format

┌────────────────────────┐
│ / / HeCo V1.0 |
│-/ /--------------------│
│/ / │
│ / Version │
│/ Authors │
│ Abstract │
│ Graph │
│ ┌────────────────────┐ │
│ │ O---O-----O O │ │
│ │ \ / |/ \ │ │
│ │ O ------O O │ │
│ └────────────────────┘ │
│ Classes... │
│ Properties... │
└────────────────────────┘

To make the HeCo ontology easier to consult, we have added a new more readable publication format for non-technical profiles.

In addition to the ontology in OWL/TTL format, the summary, the schema, and the PDF document, we provide an HTML interface.

We used WIDOCO to automatically generate this interface from our OWL file.

WIDOCO is increasingly becoming a standard in ontology delivery. This format is increasingly common on the web.

It describes all classes and properties, providing links for easier navigation within the document.

WIDOCO creates two HTML outputs, one in French and one in English.

A networked graph of the ontology is also available, enabling the ontology to be viewed using WebVOWL software.

To take advantage of this new interface, visit the HeCo Ontology.