1 Introduction
2 Basic Workflow
3 System Architecture
4 Annotation Context Model
- 4.1 Annotation Context Selection
5 Annotation Data Model
- 5.1 Annotation Metadata Specification
- 5.2 Annotated Elements Specification
6 Repository
- 6.1 Records
- 6.2 Annotations
  - 6.2.1 W3C Open Annotation implementation of the AnnoSys Annotation Data Model
7 User Interface
- 7.1 Annotation types
- 7.2 Synonyms list
8 Security
9 Message System
- 9.1 Subscriptions
- 9.2 Implementation
  - 9.2.1 Jade
10 Services
11 Setup
12 Dependencies
13 References

Introduction

This document provides the technical documentation of the AnnoSys system. Therein, the following methodology is used. First, a reference to basic workflow definitions is given. Then, an overview of the system architecture introduces the technical components implemented to realise these workflows. Next, a detailed description of the basic data model and its implementation with the means of the W3C Open Annotation specification is provided. Finally, the specification of technical interfaces or configuration details are provided in the following section for each technical component whenever apropriate.

Basic Workflow

Our publication Annotating Biodiversity Data via the Internet^[1] provides an detailed description of the basic workflows elaborated for AnnoSys.

System Architecture

AnnoSys' implementation aims to model the basic workflow and to integrate further requirements identified in ^[1] as close as possible. Therefore, AnnoSys is composed of the following interacting system components:

Repository
User Interface
Security
Message System
Services

AnnoSys system architecture

The repository component provides functionalities to archive annotations including the relating original record documents presented to the user at an annotation's creation time. A web based, but desktop oriented user interface supports annotators, curators and users to intuitively manage annotation workflows. The security component is responsible for secure authentication, authorisation and data privacy concerns within the system. The task of the message system component is to organise information flows such as informing annotators, curators or other users about status changes in annotation workflows. Finally, the service component provides interfaces to enable data exchange with external clients or services interacting with the repository.

The following sections elaborate on AnnoSys' system components.

Repository

Within AnnoSys, W3C Open Annotation Data Model (OA)^[2] serves as a basis data model to store and exchange annotation data. While OA's data model is defined based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF)^[3], record documents are delivered based on Extensible Markup Language (XML)^[4] exchange formats like e.g. ABCD^[5]. Due to the close relationship of annotations and record documents, both have to be archived within the AnnoSys repository to ensure exact recovery of annotation data at any later point in time. Finally, the repository also comprehends agent(user) profile data and agent authentication and authorisation information.

Annotations

In consideration of the RDF oriented nature of OA based annotation data, AnnoSys uses so called RDF stores (aka. triple stores) to store annotations. These stores can be regarded as databases primarily specializing in storing and retrieving of RDF data. Usually, information stored in RDF stores can be retrieved by queries specified using the SPARQL^[6] query language.

Some recent evaluation reports and RDF store benchmarking studies ^[7]^[8]^[9] evaluated individual strengths and weaknesses of different RDF stores. Referring to these evaluation results, AnnoSys decided to use Apache Jena TDB^[10] for development and prototype implementations and Virtuoso Open-Source Edition^[11] for productional use.

Original Record documents

Referring to the experience gained from the BioCASE annotation system ^[12] its file system based, hierarchical storage architecture has proofed to be a suitable solution for efficiently storing and accessing XML based original record documents(e.g ABCD, Darwin Core^[13]) in a biodiversity context. Following that experience, the current repository implementation stores original record documents on the server's file system in a configurable directory location.

Agent Profiles

The term agent profiles aggregates the following information concerning system agents (users):

personal metadata
authentication & authorisation data
personal annotation repository
preferences configuration

While an agent's personal metadata comprises his real name, affiliation and email address only, authentication & authorisation data add login credentials (username, password), roles and a unique agent identifier to the profile. Please find any details about the information stored for registered agents within the security database in section Security.

Additionally, according to the best practices recommended by the W3C Open Annotation Data Model^[14], the personal metadata is also stored based on the FOAF vocabulary^[15] together with annotation data within AnnoSys' RDF store. For privacy reasons, agents' email addresses or other sensible information are not publicly accessible in the RDF store.

*Agent metadata properties*
property	definition
rdf:type	agent type (foaf:Person, foaf:Organization or dcTypes:Software)
foaf:name	agent's name
foaf:member	optional list of members (for agent type foaf:Organization only)

AnnoSys maintains a personal annotation repository per registered agent within the system. These repositories keep track on any annotation data created and edited by authenticated agents and are neither publicly accessible nor by other system users. On publication, annotation data will be moved from the publishing agent's personal annotation repository to AnnoSys' publicly accessible RDF store. Annotations may also be manually removed by authenticated agents via the user interface.

The preferences configuration may also be managed by authenticated agents via the user interface. It holds agent individual system configurations like e.g. a list of currently opened documents in the user interface for restoring at the next login.

The security database is realised as SQLite^[16] database. The personal annotation repositories are named according to the agent's resourceId in AnnoSys. The private annotation repositories are created as Apache Jena TDB^[10] model in a directory location on the server including any personal agent profiles in subdirectories named according the agent's system resourceid.

User Interface

Providing and managing annotations may become a complex job either to annotators or data curators. For instance, annotators have to gather specimen data, analyse a potentially large number of data objects and annotate or comment specific data elements accurately. Again, data curators have to analyse these annotations, accept or reject them possibly along with individual comments and have to reintegrate them back into their data collections. Further on, any of these activities should be documented and communicated back to annotators and other subscribing members of the community.

As the main focus of both annotators and curators should be on preparing accurate information, a suitable user interface should give advice and guide users through all these workflows. Furthermore, it should allow a clear presentation of information, adoption to individual user preferences and provide convenient guidance and support through the most common workflow activities. This requires modern web user interfaces providing functionality and look and feel of desktop applications. Fortunately, due to recent web toolkit developments based on the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)^[17] technology, desktop alike applications can be implemented for the web now as well.

Here, AnnoSys decided to use Eclipse's Eclipse's Remote Application Platform (RAP)^[18] for developing a desktop oriented web user interface. The main reason for that decision was that Eclipse RAP imposes only small requirements on client machine's capabilities and does not transmit potentially large documents over the network. Thus, any complex functionality is executed on the server.

Security

The security component provides the following functionalities:

agent profile management
secure authentication
role based authorisation

Agent profile management combines the maintenance of the security database and personal profile stores for each registered agent (see Agent Profiles).

Agent profile management also facilitates the agent registration process. The agent registration consists of filling in a form with the required information. After running the registration procedure successfully, agents can immediately login to the system and start editing and publishing annotations. Please find any details about the information to be entered in section Secure Authentication.

Agent authentication is secured by individual agent credentials to be entered in the login dialog. Moreover, any data transmissions initiated through network connections are secured by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)^[19].

Based on the implementation of role based authorisation, AnnoSys may restrict access to certain functionalities based on permissions. These permission may either be compiled in and assigned to agents through role definitions (e.g. curator for a given collection) or individually by system administrators on institutional request. Please find details in section Role Based Authorisation Management.

In AnnoSys, any security relevant implementations base on the Apache Shiro^[20] framework. The security database is held in a SQLite^[16] database.

For security reasons and with respect to data privacy, the security database, personal profile stores and other system relevant configuration files are stored in a location on the server inaccessible for unauthorised AnnoSys agents or external services.

Message System

Via the message system, AnnoSys aims to inform registered agents and curators about annotation workflow status changes triggered by agent or system interactions. Therefore, the message system forwards notifications related to annotation workflow activities initiated by agents, curators or the system itself. Notifications are dispatched via system internal message queues and are individually manageable by registered agents via the user interface. Additionally, notifications are also send to agents by email.

In particular, the following kinds of annotation publishings cause the message system to trigger notifications regarding annotation workflow status changes:

original record annotations published by annotators
curator decisions reported by the AnnoSys curator interface
version updates of collection records, either detected on repository import processing or reported by curators (not implemented yet)

On occasion of any annotation workflow status change described above, the message system issues notifications according to the following topics agents may subscribe to:

subsequent publication of annotations relating to records previously annotated by the given agent (automatically)
publication of annotations relating to records an agent actively subscribed to
publication of annotations relating to a group of records which meet specific criteria an agent previously defined

Furthermore, the message system automatically issues notifications to curators on occasion of any annotation published and related to those records within collections a curator has registered for.

Summarising the set of notifications specified above, AnnoSys may issue the following kinds of messages:

message type	definition
ANNOTATION_PUBLISHED	annotation issued by an annotator
ANNOTATION_CURATED	annotation curated by a collection manager

(Currently the messages aren't distinguished by type. Although messages might have different content depending on the notification event.)

Technically, the message system builds up on the Java Message Service (JMS)^[21] standard developed by the Java Community Process and defined within specification JSR 914^[22]. Therefore, the JMS provider Apache ActiveMQ^[23] is used in tandem with Apache Camel^[24] to realise internal and external message transports.

Please find further technical details in section MessageSystem.

Services

The service component enables external services to access public data from the AnnoSys repository. Therefore, AnnoSys provides the following services and interfaces:

RESTful web services
Linked Open Data
SPARQL Endpoint

Primarily, the RESTful web service interface is intended for collaborating data portals to display information about annotations or original record documents stored in the AnnoSys repository in general, or with regard to a specific record based on its tripleId. Thus, beside lists all annotations or records available in the repository, external services may also request a list of available annotations relating to a specific record based on its tripleId. These lists contain stable URIs referring to the related annotation or record stored in the repository.

Any of these stable URIs are resolvable, such as either the denoted annotation can be downloaded as RDF/XML document, or the original record as XML document from the AnnoSys repository. That way, the AnnoSys repository and any services are completely following the recommendations of the Linked Open Data paradigm.

Finally, external services may run self-defined SPARQL queries on the AnnoSys annotation repository via the AnnoSys SPARQL endpoint^[6]. Any non-anonymous resource in the repository's RDF store is also based on stable URI and thus, follows the Linked Open Data paradigm. RESTful and Linked Open Data services are implemented using the Java API for RESTful Services (JAX-RS)^[25]

Annotation Context Model

AnnoSys' annotation context modelling approach founds on the presumption that annotations will be related to any kind of metadata related to physical specimens uniquely identifiable by Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs)^[26]^[27]). Beyond that, the accessibility of those record data in an XML document based standard like ABCD^[5] is assumed. In the biodiversity domain, there are several use cases like e.g. the annotation of georeferences which require to simultaneously address multiple record data elements (e.g. longitude, latitude) in a single annotation for providing useful information. That is, the annotation context model combines general meta information determining e.g. the annotated record or the annotator's name with an aggregated list of data element selectors. With each of these selectors, an expectation towards the curator of the collection the record relates will be expressed. The expectation may either state to update, add or remove the selected data element within the record. Furthermore, the annotator may propose new or corrected values to the selected data elements and/or may make natural language comments. Based on these information, the curator may decide to either update a collection's database or not.

Therefore, in AnnoSys the annotation context will be defined by

A UUID for the specimen's metadata data object (original record data)
The specimen metadata object
A set of element selectors within the specimen metadata object affected by the annotation

Annotation Context Selection

Using AnnoSys, annotators may identify several data elements within a record to be worth annotating. While AnnoSys is designed to support XML record documents, a mechanism to select these data elements has to be developed and implemented. During the evalution phase, it turned out that using XML diff representations or inserting annotated values and/or natural language comments as XML comments into XML record documents results in either cryptic result representations, low performance or conceptual difficulties. Therefore, AnnoSys developed the idea of realising some kind of "recorder" functionality to capture those XML data elements selected by annotators.

For that, XPath^[28] expressions provide suitable means to unambiguously identify either single or sets of data elements within XML documents of any record format. In particular, XPath based element selectors can be used to uniquely identify (sets of) data elements like

"all elements named "xxx" located below the element "yyy""
"all elements named "xxx" with a value "zzz""

Annotation Data Model

The data model outlined within the next sections is centered on the Annotation Context Model developed earlier in this document. So, the annotation data model bases in two interrelated parts:

Annotation Metadata Specification
Annotated Elements Specification

While the metadata specification provides general meta information (e.g. determining the annotated record or annotator's name), the "recorder" functionality is realised through a list of data elements capturing those data elements selected for annotation by the annotator. These "annotated elements" are "recorded" according to the XPath selector method outlined in section Annotation Context Selection. The following sections will provide more detailed information on both parts.

Annotation Data Model

Built up on these base concepts, enhanced concepts have been added in order to permit curators to communicate annotations about the curational processing of annotations. Also, a concept for mass (or multi) annotations has been developed in order to link together identical annotations addressing identical errors in a (large) number of distinct record documents. The latter concept was also introduced for curation annotations. Thus, the annotation data model reflects the following extended concepts as well:

Curation Annotation Specification
Curated Elements Specification
Mass (or Multi) Annotation Specification
Mass (or Multi) Curation Annotation Specification

Annotation Metadata Specification

The annotation metadata provides information regarding the following general aspects

annotation creation
annotated record
annotating agent

Valid annotations must include any data described within the following sections for each aspect separately.

Annotation creation

The annotation creation entails the generation of following data elements:

Motivation: Usually, annotations will be instantiated for well determined reasons. Within extensions^[29] proposed by the TDWG Annotations Interest Group^[30] the term motivation was introduced to express the intension for which an annotator has made the annotation. Within this document, we will use it synonymously with the term annotation type describing a precompiled set of data element selectors used in typical, domain specific annotation use cases. Currently, AnnoSys supports the following motivations (annotation types):; * Determination; * Duplicate Locality; * Gathering; * Nomenclatural type; * Other; * Sequence; * Record basis; * Scientific name; * Unit Mark

Datetime (of the creation): The creation's datetime describes the point in time the annotation was published by the system. This time is usually different to the time, the annotation was created within the system for user processing. The time's granularity is given in milliseconds.

AnnoSysID (of the annotation)

The AnnoSysID of the annotation shall uniquely identify any annotation created. In accordance to the AnnoSysID's and Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs), the AnnoSysID is constructed based on the following components:

institutionID: Is currently filled with the institutionId of the organisation running the AnnoSys instance creating the annotation(e.g. "BGBM").
collectionID: Is currently filled with the name of the annotation repository (e.g. "AnnoSys").
unitID: In order to produce unique unitIDs, this field is currently filled with the time in milliseconds since 01/01/1970 when the annotation was first instantiated by the AnnoSys system.

Since, annotations are not intended to be modified after publication and W3C Open Annotation Data Model (OA) actually is the only standard supported for annotation exchange, the fields version and format are currently unneeded.

Annotated record

The term annotated record compiles the following information with regard to the XML record document representation and the relating annotated specimen unit:

record GUID: The record GUID identifies the physical specimen unit to which the annotated XML record document relies on and is expected to be represented as tripleId.
record document format: The record document format describes the standard format of the annotated XML record document. This is expected to be specified by the namespace URI of the relating version of the XML standard format (e.g. ABCD v2.06: http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06).
record document version: The revision information reflects any kind of version information regarding the annotated record document. As, we can not expect any revision information from the XML record document, the time in milliseconds since 01/01/1970 when downloading the document first into the AnnoSys repository will be used.

Annotating agent

An annotating agent is either a person or a machine conducting the annotation. Conforming to the common practice considering physical specimen objects in botanical museums, only a minimum set of data is captured:

name: The name field includes first name(s) and last name(s) of the annotating person, or the name and version of the software or service used to create the annotation.
institution: The institution denotes the organisation the annotating agent belongs to. If the institution field is empty, the authorisation component will consider the agent as member of the "private taxonomist" group.
email: The email address the annotating person, or the email address of the annotating machine's administrator. For privacy reasons, this information is not subjected to be made public.

Annotated Elements Specification

According to the Annotation Context Model described in the previous chapter, the annotated elements represent a list of element selectors each linked with the following information in order to annotate the selected data element in the XML record document:

element selector

is realised according to section element selectors. Regarding the interpretation of selectors, the following special cases apply:

A selector pointing at the XML document's root element ("/") is interpreted as to address the entire data record. In particular, this means is used to express general comments about the referenced data record.
A selector pointing at a data element, for which the relating XML Schema does not allow for values to be entered, does not allow for entering annotated values as well.

annotated value (optional)

enables annotators to propose a new value for the selected data element. The proposed value must correspond to the data type specified in the document's relating XML Schema.

expectation

expresses the expected corrective to be taken by the curator with regard to the annotated data record in the collection database. Within AnnoSys, the following expectations may be expressed:

update: the value of the selected data element should be updated by the annotated value in the annotated data record.
remove: the selected data element should be removed from the annotated data record
add: a new data element according to the element selector should be added to the annotated data record including the given annotated value and/or comment.

comment (optional): permits annotators to annotate or to make natural language comments for the selected data element. Comments are always expected to be a text string.

While both, annotated value and comment are optional, one of both must be present in order to provide valuable information. That is, annotation elements neither including annotated value nor comment are considered as to be invalid.

Repository

Records

Referring to the experience gained from the BioCASE annotation system ^[12] its file system based, hierarchical storage architecture has proofed to be a suitable solution for efficiently storing and accessing XML based original record documents(e.g ABCD^[5], Darwin Core) in a biodiversity context. Following that experience, the current repository implementation stores original record documents on the server's file system in a configurable directory location. Using ABCD terms, the following file path creation scheme is used.

$RECORD_BASE_DIR/SourceInstitutionID/SourceID/format/UnitID.revision.xml

Thereby, the tripleID (SourceInstitutionID, SourceID and UnitID, see GUIDs in AnnoSys) will be extracted from the individual original record document depending on its data standard(e.g ABCD, Darwin Core). The format part within the file path creation scheme will be determined by a system-wide, predefined mapping scheme assigning an XML namespace prefix to the XML namespace URI for any data standard supported by the system. Finally, the revision part within the file name describes the datetime an original record document was first stored within the repository. According to the respective data elements defined within the [#Data Model|Data Model], the value of revision is specified as the time in milliseconds since 01/01/1970.

Whenever required for some substantial reasons(e.g. query performance), later revisions of AnnoSys may optionally store original record documents in a dedicated XML database or may introduce search engines like Apache Solr^[31] for optimising e.g. query performance.

Annotations

The storing of annotations in AnnoSys is twofold. First, each user has a personal user profile, which also includes a manageable repository holding any unpublished annotations of the given user. Second, there is a public repository, where annotations were moved to whenever a users initiates to publish an annotation.

Thereby, the user profile repositories are realised using Apache Jena TDB^[10] based triple stores. Whereas, the public annotation repository uses an Virtuoso Open-Source Edition^[11] triple store. Nevertheless, both triple stores are implemented in AnnoSys using the Apache Jena^[32] Software APIs.

In both kinds of triple stores, annotations are stored according to the W3C Open Annotation Data Model^[14] driven by the activities of the W3C Open Annotation Community Group^[33]. Due to some constraints in the current release of the W3C Open Annotation Data Model, the current implementation of the Annotation Data Model specified for AnnoSys with the means of the W3C Open Annotation Data Model results from thorough discussions with the W3C Open Annotation Community Group. Therefore, the following sections details the integration of AnnoSys' Annotation Data Model with the W3C Open Annotation Data Model.

W3C Open Annotation implementation of the AnnoSys Annotation Data Model

Principally, there are two means to implement complex data models with W3C Open Annotation. First, just the basic OA features are used to identify a target (in this case a versioned record document) and to realise annotations by formalising an own ontology to describe the annotations within the body. Second, trying to make use of all W3C OA features in order to express annotations with the means of W3C OA completely. Within AnnoSys, we decided to use the second alternative in order to provide a solution as close as possible to the current standard, and thus to be interpretable in non-biodiversity domains as well.

Therefore, the W3C Open Annotation implementation of the AnnoSys Annotation Data Model introduces new motivations reflecting the annotation types specified in the Annotation Data Model. Also, it uses multiple targets and bodies to implement the annotated elements also specified in the Annotation Data Model. Finally, the oa:hasScope property relation is used to realise a weak, but adequate linking between body and target of an annotation element. Within the next paragraphs provenance, target and body parts of the AnnoSys implementation will be elucidated in more detail.

W3C Open Annotation implementation of the AnnoSys Annotation Data Model

The oa:motivatedBy properties of the provenance part of the AnnoSys implementation extends the predefined class oa:editing to provide classes for the implementation of the AnnoSys motivation use cases (annotation types). As the basic expectation of annotators towards an collection curator is to edit or update the collection database based on the published annotation. So, the following classes have been derived from oa:editing to reflect the defined annotation type:

annosys:Determination
annosys:DuplicateLocality
annosys:Gathering
annosys:NomenclaturalType
annosys:Other
annosys:Sequence
annosys:RecordBasis
annosys:ScientificName
annosys:UnitMark

The remaining properties are straight forward uses of the W3C OA Specification providing the following information:

annotated by: the annotating agent, which is usually a foaf:Person, but may also be represented as prov:Software agent if (mass) annotations were created by a corresponding service.
annotated at: datetime, the annotation was published.
serialised by: the software agent, which has created the annotation in favour of the annotator(e.g. AnnoSys system).
serialised at: datetime, the annotation was first created within the system before it has been published by the annotator.

The annotated elements of an annotation are realised as tuples of target and body each. Due to the open world assumption defined wihtin the W3C OA Specification, any target and any body may be reused by any other annotation and thus, the statement expressed by these resources must always be true. Therefore, body and target of an annotated element can not be "hardlinked", because this would contradict to the open world assumption. Here, the oa:hasScope property comes in place, which provides a kind of weak linking and could be interpreted in the sense of: The target this body is scoped to was examined by the annotator when the annotation(body) was created. In fact, even though the relationship is not hardlinked, it expresses exactly what we require to model the annotated element. The body tracks the expectation, annotated value and the comment created by an annotator when examining a selected data element within a given record identified within the target.

A specific target part of an annotated element is identified through a oa:hasSource, oa:hasState and a oa:hasSelector property, which will be described within the next paragaphs.

oa:hasSource

a target's source represents the tripleId of the physical specimen object in a museum(e.g. BGBM:Herbar:0001) which is somehow represented as a dataset.

oa:hasState

the state of the dataset represents the state of record document related to the target source as presented to the annotator at annotation time.

oa:cachedSource: the cached source represents the record XML document within the AnnoSys repository as it was downloaded from a record data provider. The cached source is stored as stable http-URI, which can be used to retrieve the given document from the AnnoSys repository via the AnnoSys Linked Data services.
oa:when: as we selected oa:TimeState class, when describes the datetime, when the record document referred to by the cached source property was retrieved and stored within the AnnoSys repository.

oa:hasSelector

oa:FragmentSelector is used here as class type to describe the AnnoSys element selector. In particular, fragment selectors support the XPointer specification, which permits to adequately state namespaces and XPath^[28] selectors to identify the elements in the XML record document specified within the hasCachedSource property.

dcterms:conformsTo: namespaceURI of the XPointer specification
rdf:value: XPointer expression selecting an annotated element within the XML record document denoted in the hasCachedSource property

A specific body part of an annotated element is represented by its scope(annotated target) and a body holding the values of an annotated element

oa:hasScope

refers to the specific target resource this specific body resource relates to

oa:hasSource

refers to the body resource holding the values of the annotated element

rdf:type

a class introduced by AnnoSys describing the expectation of the annotator towards the curator of the collection database. The following clases are currently supported:

annosys:Update
annosys:Remove
annosys:Add

dcterms:description: the natural language comment of the annotator with regard to the selected annotated element.
rdf:value: the annotated value proposed by the annotator with regard to the selected annotated element.

In comformance to the W3C Open Annotation specification, a oa:Composite element is used to group specific target or body resources, if multiple specific targets and bodies have been used to model multiple annotated elements. If only a single annotated element had been modeled, oa:hasTarget or oa:hasBody would refer to a specific target or body element respectively.

User Interface

This section will neither focus on operating the user interface nor its elements. Please refer to the current user instructions document for any details.

Within this section, the configuration of annotation types, their relating data templates in terms of annotation use case specifications and the concomitant definition of record document format namespaces and element selectors as well as the current implementation details of specification based user interface support will be documented.

Any user interface related configuration files are properties based. They will locate in the subdirectory config of the system's configuration home directory (henceforth referred to as ${AnnoSys.home.dir}).

All of these properties files will be evaluated on system startup only! That is, any changes will require a system restart in order to be considered.

Annotation types

The configuration of annotation types takes place within the following property files:

namespace.properties
selector.properties
annotation.properties

The namespace.properties file is used to map namespace prefixes to their relating namespace URIs. Beyond that, it specifies which XML document formats in terms of namespace URIs are supported by the AnnoSys software. The file selector.properties defines reusable constants for XML element selectors based on the XPointer Framework^[34]. Within the annotation.properties, element selectors defined above are finally organised to compose annotation types and to define user input value restrictions.

Note: Placeholders may be used (and are highly recommended to enhance readability) in any .properties files to reference and being evaluated within expressions defined for any other property name in any of the AnnoSys properties configuration files. Referenced placeholders simply substitute the evaluated value defined by the referenced property. Placeholders may be stated like ${property name} in any expression.

Namespace Support

Within the file namespace.properties any namespace supported ("known") by the AnnoSys system have to be configured. In particular, for any supported namespace a unique system-wide namespace prefix and the relating namespace URI have to be specified. Optionally, a (machine readable) namespace specification document may be given. Based on the specification document, AnnoSys' user interface analyses the data standard provided therein in order to facilitate automatic user supporting functionalities like

input validation
input restriction by drop-down selections
provision of XML element specific documentation
...

The architecture of AnnoSys' namespace support is designed to be generic in terms of data formats and data standards. Nevertheless, currently only XML data and ABCD^[5] standard are implemented.

Namespace URI Mappings

In order to be correctly interpreted by the AnnoSys software, namespace URI mappings must be defined according to the following schema:

NamespaceURI.<namespace prefix> = expression(namespaceURI)

NamespaceURI: Prefix required to retrieve Namespace URI mapping definitions within an arbitrary list of properties by the system.
namespace prefix: The namespace prefix to be assigned with the namespace URI expression.

Example

NamespaceURI.abcd2.06 = http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06

Maps the namespace prefix abcd2.06 to the namespace URI http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06.

Namespace configuration

Any namespace to be supported or "known" by the AnnoSys software must be expressed in a property according to the specification described in this section. Mainly, a namespace configuration consists of the following information

Namespace prefix mapping of the data standard specification
Link(s) to (machine readable) specification document(s)

Even though the configuration design is generic in terms of supporting undetermined specification types, currently only XML-Schema^[35] based specification document support is implemented by AnnoSys.

Within the subsequent description, namespace configurations are identified by namespace prefixes and bound to a list of parameter expressions determining the relating namespace URI, and specification document.

Namespace.<namespace prefix> = expression-list(namespaceURI,specification type, local specification file path, specificationURI, default)

Namespace: Prefix required to retrieve Namespace URI mapping definitions within an arbitrary list of properties by the system.
namespace prefix: The namespace prefix assigned with the namespace configuration.
namespaceURI (required): Prefix required to retrieve Namespace URI mapping definitions within an arbitrary list of properties by the system.
specification type (optional): Currently, only type xsd (XML-Schema) specification support is implemented.
local specification file path (optional): Path to the namespace relating specification in the local file system.
specificationURI (optional): URI of the namespace relating specification. If the local specification is neither configured nor accessible, AnnoSys attempts to resolve the specification document from the given URI.
default (required): Indicates, if the software assigns this namespace configuration per default to the given namespace URI. Possible values are true or false, where true must be assigned only once to the given namespace URI.

Example:

Namespace.abcd2.06 = ${NamespaceURI.abcd2.06}, xsd, ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/schema/abcd/2.06/ABCD_2.06.xsd, http://rs.tdwg.org/abcd/2.06/ABCD_2.06.xsd, false
Namespace.abcd2.06a = ${NamespaceURI.abcd2.06}, xsd, ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/schema/abcd/2.06/a/ABCD_2.06a.xsd, http://rs.tdwg.org/abcd/2.06/a/ABCD_2.06a.xsd, false
Namespace.abcd2.06b = ${NamespaceURI.abcd2.06}, xsd, ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/schema/abcd/2.06/b/ABCD_2.06b.xsd, http://rs.tdwg.org/abcd/2.06/b/ABCD_2.06b.xsd, true
Namespace.biocase = ${NamespaceURI.biocase}, , , , true

The first three lines configure the namespace support for different versions of ABCD^[5] documents. As any of these versions is defined based on the same namespace URI, the most recent version is configured to be used by default.

The last line configures the namespace support for the BioCASE protocol. Thereby, no XML-Schema specification is provided, as it is not subjected to annotation.

Definition of element selectors

Element selectors are used within the AnnoSys software to reduce the complexity of selector usage through assignment of a system-internal unique name. As element selectors are represented by property names, the placeholder concept enables system-wide reusing of named element selectors.

In order to be correctly interpreted by the AnnoSys software, any selector constant must be defined according to the following schema:

ElementSelector.<selector type>.<selector name>.<namespace prefix> = expression(XPointer)

ElementSelector: This is a prefix required to retrieve ElementSelector definitions within an arbitrary list of properties by the system.
selector type: The selector type for marking selector expressions to be retrieved by the AnnoSys system must be xpointer.; Any other types may be used and will not be evaluated by the software. In particular, we use xpointerconst to define intermediary place holder expressions, which are substituted in the finally defined selector expression.
selector name: Defines the selector's name, which is used by the AnnoSys system to identify a given selector expression.
namespace prefix: Defines the XML document's namespace prefix to which the selector expression applies. That way, the same selector name may be defined with regard to several document standards. Currently, AnnoSys supports ABCD 2.06b^[5] documents only.
expression: Here, a valid expression according to the XPointer Framework is expected by the evaluating software.

Example:

NamespaceURI.abcd2.06b = http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06
ElementSelector.xpointer.xmlns.abcd2.06b = xmlns(abcd2.06b=${NamespaceURI.abcd2.06b})
ElementSelector.xpointerconst.DataSets.abcd2.06b = ${ElementSelector.xpointer.xmlns.abcd2.06b}xpointer(/abcd2.06b:DataSets
ElementSelector.xpointerconst.DataSet.abcd2.06b = ${ElementSelector.xpointerconst.DataSets.abcd2.06b}/abcd2.06b:DataSet
ElementSelector.xpointerconst.Unit.abcd2.06b = ${ElementSelector.xpointerconst.DataSet.abcd2.06b}/abcd2.06b:Units/abcd2.06b:Unit[1]
ElementSelector.xpointer.UnitID.abcd2.06b = ${ElementSelector.xpointerconst.Unit.abcd2.06b}/abcd2.06b:UnitID)

The selector expression evaluated for property ElementSelector.xpointer.UnitID.abcd2.06b is:

xmlns(abcd2.06b=http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06)xpointer(/abcd2.06b:DataSets/abcd2.06b:DataSet/abcd2.06b:Units/abcd2.06b:Unit[1]/abcd2.06b:UnitID)

The element selector named UnitID of type xpointer will evaluate the first occurence of a unit id element within a given ABCD document of namespace http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06.

Definition of Annotation Types

Annotation types define a subset of data elements, which may potentially be subject of annotation within a determined annotation workflow like Determination or Gathering. Before starting to create annotations, a predefined annotation type has to be selected by the annotator from a drop-down selection box. After having determined the annotation type that way, the standard view presents to the annotator only those data elements as defined in the corresponding template for the given annotation type. Thus, an annotation type definition consists of a list of element selectors determined in favour of a given annotation workflow.

AnnotationType.<namespace prefix>.<name> = expression-list(element selectors)

AnnotationType: This is a prefix required to retrieve AnnotationType definitions within an arbitrary list of properties by the system.
namespace prefix: Defines the XML document's namespace prefix to which the annotation type definition applies to. The namespace prefix must be given as defined in section Namespace Support.
name: Defines the name of the annotation type, which is used by the AnnoSys system to internally identify a given annotation type definition.
element selectors: Specifies the list of template defining element selectors(cmp. Definition of element selectors).

Example:

AnnotationType.abcd2.06b.Determination = \
${ElementSelector.xpointer.PreferredIdentifierRole.abcd2.06b}, \
${ElementSelector.xpointer.PreferredHigherTaxonName.abcd2.06b}, \
${ElementSelector.xpointer.PreferredHigherTaxonRank.abcd2.06b}, \
${ElementSelector.xpointer.PreferredFullScientificName.abcd2.06b}

The annotation type named Determination is defined for the namespace prefix abcd2.06b and consists of the element selectors named as PreferredIdentifierRole, PreferredHigherTaxonName, PreferredHigherTaxonRank and PreferredFullScientificName and defined for the same namespace.

Definition of Annotation Restrictions

In addition to element value restrictions potentially defined in a specification document and automatically evaluated by the AnnoSys user interface, individual restrictions may be configured using the term AnnotationRestriction. An annotation restriction specifies a list of input values permitted for a given element selector. That list of permitted input values will be shown to the annotator within a drop-down selection box and automatically opened within the related input field of the user interface. The names of annotation restrictions are expressed as XPath^[28] selectors, where any '/' characters were replaced by '_' characters. The latter is due to the fact that annotation restrictions also apply to the annotation editor's Expert View, where restrictions are only evaluated on a XPointer expression basis.

Note: This will be subject of modification in a later revision where the XPath expression be replaced by the name of an element selector.

AnnotationRestriction.<namespace prefix>.<XPath expression> = expression-list(permitted values)

AnnotationType: This is a prefix required to retrieve AnnotationType definitions within an arbitrary list of properties by the system.
namespace prefix: Defines the XML document's namespace prefix to which the annotation restriction definition applies to. The namespace prefix must be given as defined in section Namespace Support.
XPath expression: Defines an XPath selector to the addressed element, where any '/' characters must be replaced by '_' characters.
permitted values: Specifies a list of permitted values as to be shown in a drop-down selection box within the related input field in the user interface.

Example:

AnnotationRestriction.abcd2.06b._DataSets_DataSet_Units_Unit_SpecimenUnit_NomenclaturalTypeDesignations_NomenclaturalTypeDesignation_TypeStatus = \
Isotype, \
Syntype, \
Isosyntype, \
Holotype, \
Lectotype, \
Neotype, \
Parataype, \
Epitype

The permitted input values (Isotype, Syntype, etc.) are specified for record documents within the defined namespace abcd2.06b for elements matching the XPath expression /DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/SpecimenUnit/NomenclaturalTypeDesignations/NomenclaturalTypeDesignation/TypeStatus.

Synonyms list

The synonyms list contains mappings of taxonomic family names defined by the element selector PreferredHigherTaxonName, which may be used synonymously in search operations conducted via the user interface as well as in evaluating user defined subsriptions. The configuration of annotation types takes place in the property file defined within the AnnoSys System Configuration file annosys.properties using the option AnnoSys.synonyms.file (default: /etc/AnnoSys/resources/synonyms.properties).

Mappings must be defined in both directions and family names must be given in lowercase. Any number of mappings are permitted.

Example:

asteraceae = compositae
compositae = asteraceae

Defines the synonymity betwenn the family names Asteraceae and Compositae.

Security

In AnnoSys, any security relevant implementations base on the Apache Shiro^[20] framework. Further on, any security or privacy relevant information is stored in a file holding a SQLite^[16] database. The following sections will provide further details about the internal parts of the security component.

Security Database

As any other system relevant configuration files, the security database is stored in a location on the server inaccessible for unauthorised AnnoSys agents or external services.

The figure Security Database Schema below shows an entity relationship diagram revealing data and table relationships as organised in the security database. Therein, the agents table is used for storing user authentication and profile data. The table institutions holds a list of any known institutions either by requesting and updating the GBIF institutions web service or by additions created by users while registering to the AnnoSys Security Database.

File:AnnoSys2-authDb.png

Security Database Scheme

The following sections provide some implementation details about authentication and agent profiles in AnnoSys.

Secure Authentication

Agent authentication is secured by individual agent credentials to be entered at the login dialog. Moreover, any data transmissions initiated through network connections are secured by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)^[19].

For user authentication, the following data is relevant and retrieved from the security database's subjects table.

uid: the user id, or the login name an agent fills into the login dialog.
credential: the agent's credential, or the password an agent fills into the login dialog. Credentials are stored as digest values according to Apache Shiro's 3.1 DefaultPasswordService Hash Algorithm (SHA-256).
status: the current status of the agent. Currently, only active (1) and inactive (0) are supported values.

The relationship with agent data in the annotation repository is realised through the following data elements:

resourceid: the current resource URI of the agent representing the users's identity in the annotation repository.
type: the agent type (Person, Organisation or Software) according to the agent metadata properties defined in section Agent Profiles.
name: the agent's name
institution: the agent's institution as a key to the institution element in the table institutions, where the element institutionName represents the name of the given institution

Additionally, the following information is held by the security database:

mailbox: the agent's email address used for communication via the AnnoSys Message System.
mailboxLocale: the agent's locale used communication via the AnnoSys Message System.
uiLocale: the agent's locale used for displaying the AnnoSys User Interface.
description: to be used by system administrators for additional natural language information about the agent.

Agent Profile Management

Agent profile management combines the maintenance of the security database and personal profile stores arranged for each registered agent ( cmp. Agent Profiles). Currently, the agent registration process consists of filling in a form with the required information as outlined in in section Secure Authentication. Registered agents may immediately login to the system and start editing and publishing annotations. Also, a personal profile store including a store capturing personal system preferences will be instantiated on a per agent basis. If imposed by measures against system misuse (e.g. spam bot registrations), the registration procedure may be hardened by appropriate measures in the future.

Furthermore, system administrators may decide to inactivate or delete agents and their profiles from the system for reasons of misuse or security. This will impact the deletion of any annotations published by those agents as well.

Message System

Via the message system, registered agents are informed about annotation events triggered by agent or system interactions. Therefore, notifications in terms of email messages are issued based on subscriptions defined by registered agents. Registered agents can manage their subscriptions via the user interface.

Technically, the Message System bases on the JavaMail API^[36] to send emails via an SMTP server, and a subscription component which manages the subscriptions and assigns messages to agents when a new annotation matches the criteria of a subscription defined by an agent.

Subscriptions

Subscriptions are a means for agents to individually determine those kinds of annotations they want to be notified about. They are based on a quite simple data model (see diagram Subscription database scheme) and are currently persisted in a SQLite database.

File:AnnoSys2-subscriptionDb.png

Subscription database scheme

Mainly, subscriptions consist of composable search criteria to determine matching annotations. Search criteria are defined by AnnoSys ontology concepts, comparison types and expected values. They can further be aggregated by logical operators and are expressed by JSON data structures in string format. Agents may create an unlimited amount of subscriptions. The following table shows the currently supported representation of a subscription in the database tables subscriptions and agentSubscriptions:

*Database table subscriptions*
name	description
id	(uu)id of the subscription
label	label of the subscription (assigned by agent)
subscription	Composite search criteria as JSON string

*Database table agentSubscriptions*
name	description
subscriberUid	(uu)id of the (subscribing) agent
subscriptionId	(uu)id of the subscription

On publication of new annotations, the criteria of any subscriptions are checked for matching the given annotation values. Thereby, the criteria either refers to an element's value in the original record's xml document or an annotation element's value in the annotation to be checked. If the criteria of a subscription match the relating information of an annotation, the agent having issued the subscription will be notified by a corresponding email message. The notification messages will be sent via the SMTP server configured by the Message System.

Implementation

There are several actors involved in processing messages:

AnnotationStore
MessageSystem
SubscriptionSubSystem
JadeRenderer

First the AnnotationStore gets notified, that a new annotation is about to be published.

The AnnotationStore calls the MessageSystem to process subscriptions affected by the new annontation(s). Via its SubscriptionSubSystem, the MessageSystem checks for all subscriptions matching the new annotation(s). For all matching subscriptions, it retrieves the subscribing agents from the agentSubscriptions relationsship and their corresponding profiles (including their email addresses) from AnnoSys' SecuritySystem. According to the current mailbox locale stored in an agent's profile, the language for the email template is selected and passed combined with parts of the corresponding agent profile to the JadeRenderer. The JadeRenderer generates the HTML-content of the email message which will finally be sent to the subscribing agent.

Jade

The templates are located in resource/templates. The language for the templates is jade. An overview of the syntax can be found at http://jade-lang.com/ and https://naltatis.github.io/jade-syntax-docs/ with interactive input boxes.

Services

Preliminaries

Within the services documentation, some place holders are used to shorten reading and to adopt it easily to other or changing environments.

${AnnoSysURL} = https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/AnnoSys: Denotes the base URL of the stable and released AnnoSys system.
${ServicesURL} = https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys: Denotes the base URL of the the stable and released AnnoSys web services.

For testing purposes, the most recent release is available under the following URLs:

${AnnoSysTestURL} = https://dev-nnosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/AnnoSys: Denotes the base URL of the AnnoSys Test system.
${ServicesTestURL} = https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys: Denotes the base URL of the AnnoSys Test system web services.

Please use the ${AnnoSysTestURL} or ${ServicesTestURL} if you are testing the integration of AnnoSys with your application!

Please report errors to the AnnoSys Project Team.

Integrating AnnoSys with Data Portals

AnnoSys provides the following types of interfaces for integration with Data Portals or other applications

Invoking the AnnoSys user interface
Retrieving record or annotation related information from AnnoSys web services

User interface invocation

The user interface can be invoked either to enable portal users to annotate the data record currently reviewed in the data portal, to examine an annotation related to the data record or to redirect users to the AnnoSys application main page including an annotation search interface.

The search interface can be invoked by redirecting web browsers to ${AnnoSysURL}.

To enable users to annotate a data record, the relating data must be transferred to the AnnoSys application first. Then, the user will be redirected to the AnnoSys Annotation Editor. This may be done either by providing AnnoSys with a URL, where the document can be downloaded by AnnoSys directly, or by providing a set of parameters instructing AnnoSys to download the corresponding data record from a BioCASE provider.

Note: The values for any parameters described in the next sections MUST be URL encoded individually(!) in order to be correctly transmitted via the URL to AnnoSys !

Download via direct URL

The URL referring to the record data document to be passed to AnnoSys via the parameter recordURL, i.e.

recordURL: The parameter should contain the URL of the document to be downloaded.

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/AnnoSys?recordURL=http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/annosys/736268484

The URL may refer to the following types of documents

ABCD2.06 based XML data record(s)
BioCASE response documents containing ABCD2.06 based XML data record(s)
ABCD Archives containing either ABCD2.06 based XML data record(s) or BioCASE response documents
A Simple Darwin Core based XML data record
Darwin Core Archives containing data record(s) according to the Darwin Core Standard

In case of any of the document holds more than a single data record, the AnnoSys user interface provides a record selection dialog where annotators may select records for further being processed as multiple individual annotations from a list of successfully transmitted data records.

Download via BioCASE Provider

The BioCASE provider and the data record to be retrieved by AnnoSys must be passed via the following parameter set

providerURL: The base URL of the BioCASE provider (e.g. http://ww3.bgbm.org/biocase/pywrapper.cgi?dsa=Herbar&).
protocolURI: The namespace URI of the protocol used by the BioCASE provider (e.g. http://www.biocase.org/schemas/protocol/1.3).
formatURI: The namespace URI of the document format to be retrieved (e.g. http://www.tdwg.org/schemas/abcd/2.06).
institution: The institution (lsid:authority) part of the tripleId describing the record (e.g. BGBM).
source: The source (lsid:namespace) part of the tripleId describing the record (e.g. Herbarium Berolinense).
unitID: The unitID (lsid:objectId) part of the tripleId describing the record (e.g. B 20 0145120).

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/AnnoSys?providerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fww3.bgbm.org%2Fbiocase%2Fpywrapper.cgi%3Fdsa%3DHerbar%26&protocolURI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biocase.org%2Fschemas%2Fprotocol%2F1.3&formatURI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tdwg.org%2Fschemas%2Fabcd%2F2.06&institution=B&source=Herbarium%20Berolinense&unitID=B%2040%200025800

Opening Annotation View or Annotation Editor from AnnoSys repository objects

The repository URI corresponds to the UUID identifier used to retrieve any data stored in the AnnoSys repository like annotations or annotated records through AnnoSys' Linked Open Data Services described in section Web Services.

The URI referring repository data object can be passed to AnnoSys via the parameter repositoryURI, i.e.

repositoryURI: The parameter must contain a valid URI dereferencing an annotation or annotated record from the AnnoSys repository.

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/d5a2a93e-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994

Examples of AnnoSys dataportals integrations

The following example links are all referring to the same object: B 40 0025800 (Padina Pavonia):

Herbarium Berolinense – Virtual Herbarium
BiNHum Sammlungsportal des Humboldt-Rings
World Flora Online Specimen Explorer for Phytotaxonomists
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Please use the speech bubble on the menu right left to the "Login"-button, then select one of the "Content issues")
BIOCASE portal for BGBM collection

Web Services

AnnoSys provides two kinds of web services.

Linked Open Data (LOD) services
RESTful services

The Linked Open Data services provide access to resources referring to data stored in the AnnoSys repository. Therewith, annotations can be retrieved as RDF data, and the relating record documents as XML documents.

The RESTful services provide access to other information related to annotations or records, like if there are annotations stored in the repository for a given record.

Actually, AnnoSys provides the following service entries:

${ServicesURL}/repository

For legacy reasons e.g. to data portals connected AnnoSys I, AnnoSys also provides the former (legacy) service entries:

${ServicesURL}/services/annotations
${ServicesURL}/services/records

Additional services may be implemented on request.

The next sections will provide detailed information regarding the provided services.

Note: The values for any parameters described in the next sections MUST be URL encoded individually(!) in order to be correctly interpreted by AnnoSys Web Services !

Repository

The general context path for annotations is ${ServicesURL}/repository.

All repository requests return an either an RDF graph containing the repository object as described in our repository object model or a JSON annotation object as described in section JSON Annotation Object.

The following sections will describe possible requests and answers.

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/records

Returns a JSON object containing a list of URLs referring to to all available annotations in the AnnoSys repository.

size: number of records
records: list of list of record URI's

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/records
{
   "size": 4,
   "records": [
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/ebb228c9-3101-11e8-91bc-a56c89740491",
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/330e9167-2ede-11e8-b208-6595b3775167", 
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/330e91a0-2ede-11e8-b208-6595b3775167",
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/330e9191-2ede-11e8-b208-6595b3775167" 	
	]
}

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/annotations

Returns a JSON object containing a list of JSON Annotation Objects referring to to all available annotations in the AnnoSys repository.

size: number of annotations
annotations: list of JSON Annotation Objects

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/annotations
{
   "size": 2,
   "annotations": [
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/e8f9d4f9-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"recordURIs": [
				"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/e8fc1eea-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994"
			],
			"annotator": "Okka Tschöpe",
			"time": 1497871966380,
			"motivation": "Determination"
		},
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/ec409be1-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"recordURIs": [
				"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/ec42e5d2-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994"
			],
			"annotator": "Wolf-Henning Kusber",
			"time": 1504034932827,
			"motivation": "Nomenclatural type"    
		}
	]
}

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/agents

Returns a JSON object containing a list of JSON Agent Objects referring to to all available agents in the AnnoSys repository.

size: number of annotations
annotations: list of JSON Agent Objects

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/agents
{
	"size": 98,
	"agents": [
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/551d17d0-2edd-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"name": "Wolf-Henning Kusber",
			"type": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person",
			"organisations": []
	 	},
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/55204b3c-2edd-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"name": "Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin",
			"type": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Organization",
			"organisations": []
		}, 
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/551cc9a6-2edd-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"name": "AnnoSys Release 2016.04.22",
			"type": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Software",
			"organisations": []
		}
	]
}

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/<uuid>

Returns the repository object with the given UUID as RDF graph, if it exists. Otherwise, HTTP-Status 404 is returned.

Parameters

format (optional): The RDF output format may be selected by the optional parameter format. Any format supported by Apache Jena may be chosen (defaults to JSONLD).

Note: If the request is issued from a web browser, then the user will be redirected to the corresponding Annotation View or Annotation Editor in the AnnoSys user interface respectively. In particular this will be done if the HTTP GET Request includes an Accept-header containing the keyword "html".

Examples: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/e8f9d4f9-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994
          https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/e8f9d4f9-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994?format=TURTLE

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/import

Imports any annotations available from an AnnoSys I repository into this repository.

In order to work, the Service.enableImport property must be set to true. Otherwise, HTTP-Status 404 is returned.

Any exception thrown during the import process will result in anHTTP-Status 500 to be returned.

Parameters

srcModelPath: The (local) path to the TDB-model of the AnnoSys I repository to be imported (e.g. /etc/AnnoSys/repository/model).
srcModelBaseURI: The base URI of the AnnoSys I model (e.g. https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/services).
srcRecordRepositoryPath: The (local) path to the AnnoSys I XML record repository (e.g. /etc/AnnoSys/repository/record).
srcAuthStorePath: The (local) path to the AnnoSys I Authstore database (e.g. /etc/AnnoSys/authDB.sqlite).

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/import?srcModelPath=/etc/AnnoSys/repository/model&srcModelBaseURI=https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/services&srcRecordRepositoryPath=/etc/AnnoSys/repository/record&srcAuthStorePath=/etc/AnnoSys/authDB.sqlite

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/export

Returns the AnnoSys repository's RDF graph.

Any exception thrown during the import process will result in an HTTP-Status 500 to be returned.

Parameters

format (optional): The RDF output format may be selected by the optional parameter format. Any format supported by Apache Jena may be chosen (defaults to JSONLD).

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/export?format=TURTLE

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/backup

Backups the AnnoSys repository's RDF graph to the given (server local) file path.

In order to work, the Service.enableBackup property must be set to true. Otherwise, HTTP-Status 404 is returned.

Any exception thrown during the import process will result in anHTTP-Status 500 to be returned.

Parameters

location: The server local file path where the backup model shall be written.
format (optional): The RDF output format may be selected by the optional parameter format. Any format supported by Apache Jena may be chosen (defaults to JSONLD).

Examples: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/backup?location=/tmp/backup&format=TURTLE

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/restore

Restores the AnnoSys repository's RDF graph to the given (server local) file path.

In order to work, the Service.enableImport property must be set to true. Otherwise, HTTP-Status 404 is returned.

Any exception thrown during the import process will result in anHTTP-Status 500 to be returned.

Parameters

location: The server local backup file path where the repository shall be restored from.

Examples: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/restore?location=\tmp\backup

Annotations (Legacy)

The general context path for annotations is ${ServicesURL}/services/annotations.

All annotation requests return an either an RDF graph containing the annotations as described in our annotation model or a JSON annotation object as described in section JSON Annotation Object.

The following sections will describe possible requests and answers.

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/services/annotations

Returns a JSON object containing a list of JSON objects referring to to all available annotations in the AnnoSys repository.

size: number of annotations
annotations: list of JSON Annotation Objects

Example: https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSysTest/services/annotations
{
   "size": 2,
   "annotations": [
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/e8f9d4f9-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"recordURIs": [
				"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/e8fc1eea-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994"
			],
			"annotator": "Okka Tschöpe",
			"time": 1497871966380,
			"motivation": "Determination"
		},
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/ec409be1-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"recordURIs": [
				"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/ec42e5d2-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994"
			],
			"annotator": "Wolf-Henning Kusber",
			"time": 1504034932827,
			"motivation": "Nomenclatural type"    
		}
	]
}

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/services/annotations/<uuid>

Returns the annotation with the given annotationId as RDF graph, if it exists. Otherwise, HTTP-Status 404 is returned. The RDF document format may be selected by the optional parameter format. Any format supported by Apache Jena may be chosen (defaults to JSONLD).

Note: If the request is issued from a web browser, then the user will be redirected to the corresponding Annotation View in the AnnoSys user interface. In particular this will be done if the HTTP GET Request includes an Accept-header containing the keyword html.

Examples: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/services/annotations/e8f9d4f9-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994
          https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/services/annotations/e8f9d4f9-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994?format=TURTLE

Records (Legacy)

The general context path for records is ${ServicesURL}/services/records.

Records are identified within the AnnoSys repository by their UUID.

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/services/records/d5a2a93e-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/services/records

Returns a JSON object containing a list of URLs referring to to all available annotations in the AnnoSys repository.

size: number of records
records: list of list of record URI's

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/services/records
{
   "size": 4,
   "records": [
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/ebb228c9-3101-11e8-91bc-a56c89740491",
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/330e9167-2ede-11e8-b208-6595b3775167", 
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/330e91a0-2ede-11e8-b208-6595b3775167",
		"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/330e9191-2ede-11e8-b208-6595b3775167" 	
	]
}

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/services/records/<lsid:authority>/<lsid:namespace>/<lsid:objectId>/annotations

Returns a JSON object containing information about all annotations referring to the record in the AnnoSys repository according to the given record tripleId. In particular, this includes annotations created for all record versions stored in the AnnoSys record repository.

Otherwise, HTTP-Status 404 is returned if no such record exists.

record: URI of the most recent record for the given tripleId.
hasAnnotation: true or false.
size: number of annotations found related to the most recent record.
annotations: list of JSON Annotation Objects.

Example: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/services/records/B/Herbarium+Berolinense/B+40+0025800/annotations
{
	"record": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/d5a2a93e-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
	"hasAnnotation": true,
	"size": 2,
	"annotations": [
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/ea3cb55d-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"recordURIs": [
				"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/d5a2a93e-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994"
			],
			"annotator": "Wolf-Henning Kusber",
			"time": 1406024546055,
		 	"motivation": "Determination"
		},
		{
			"repositoryURI": "https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/d59f9bfd-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994",
			"recordURIs": [
				"https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/AnnoSys/repository/d5a2a93e-2edc-11e8-b914-6f11f81e2994"
			],
			"annotator": "Wolf-Henning Kusber",
			"time": 1406023974657,
			"motivation": "Gathering"
		}
	]
}

JSON Annotation Object

An JSON Annotation Object contains the following meta information about an annotation which is intended for being displayed at a data portal user interface:

repositoryURI: URI of the annotation within the AnnoSys repository
recordURIs: list of record URI's belonging to that annotation
annotator: name of the annotating agent
time: annotation's publication time in milliseconds since 01 January 1970
motivation: the annotation's motivation or annotation type

JSON Agent Object

An JSON Agent Object contains the following meta information about an agent either stored as annotation creator, generator or organisation one of the former's may belong to:

repositoryURI: URI of the agent within the AnnoSys repository.
name: agent's name.
type: agent's type ( http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person, http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Organization or http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Software)
organisations: list of JSON Agent Objects containing the meta information of the organisations the current agent may be member of.

SPARQL Endpoint

AnnoSys also provides a SPARQL endpoint enabling external services or applications to run self-defined queries against the AnnoSys annotation repository. The SPARQL endpoint is driven by Virtuoso Open Source.

The URL of the AnnoSys SPARQL endpoint is: https://dev-annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/sparql.

Setup

As an Eclipse RAP^[18] application, AnnoSys is a Java web servlet instance and the provided AnnoSys.war file has to be deployed within a Java web servlet container like Eclipse Jetty^[37]. The AnnoSys Release version is running with Jetty Version 8.1.3-4, which corresponds to the default installation of the Debian package jetty8.

The provided AnnoSys.war file expects its main configuration file on the server path /etc/AnnoSys/config/annosys.properties. Likewise, the Apache Shiro^[20] configuration is expected on the server path /etc/AnnoSys/config/shiro.ini. A basic and empty configuration directory template will be provided within the file AnnoSys.Template.zip and must simply unpacked to the server's root directory (/).

If you like to modify the default configuration, then the war file has to be rebuild from source code. AnnoSys is build with the Eclipse Kepler Edition "Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers". The file AnnoSys.Project.zip contains the complete Eclipse project used for developing AnnoSys.

The following sections will briefly describe the deployment and building of the AnnoSys.war file, and the basic configuration options to adopt the AnnoSys configuration if required.

TODO

Virtuoso setup

Eclipse & RAP Release Update

Https-Proxy setup

annosys.properties anpassen

mvn install ausführen vor kompilieren

AnnoSys.launch Run Configuration zum Starten

Deploying AnnoSys.war file

Deploying the AnnoSys.war with Jetty is easy. Simply copy the file into the webapps subdirectory of Jetty's home directory (/var/lib/jetty8/webapps on Debian) and restart jetty (/etc/init.d/jetty8 restart) and AnnoSys should be reachable on the URL http://<servername>:8080/AnnoSys/AnnoSys.

Building AnnoSys.war file from source code

Unpack the file AnnoSys.Project.zip and import or open the project from the subdirectory org.bgbm.annosys with your Eclipse Kepler Edition "Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers". Within the Package Explorer View on the left side, double-click on the file annosys.target to install the RAP v2.1 target platform for AnnoSys. The project should be compiled and built against the platform automatically.

Next, double-click on the file AnnoSys.warproduct which should open the conifguration dialog of Eclipse WAR Product export wizard. Usually, just executing the export wizard should be fine. If something does not work as expected, first executing Add Required Plug-ins within the step 1 Configuration dialog should solve dependency problems. Finally, deploy your generated AnnoSys.war file as described above.

AnnoSys System Configuration

AnnoSys' system configuration is based on the Apache Commons configuration framework and is subdivided to the following configuration files:

annosys.properties
annotation.properties
selector.properties
schema.properties

Further on, that directory is the default location for configuration files of Apache Shiro^[20] and the Apache log4j logging system.

shiro.ini
log4j.properties

If not configured otherwise in your self-built war file, the configuration files will be expected in the directory /etc/AnnoSys/config/. The following sections will briefly introduce into the configuration options on a per file basis.

annosys.properties

AnnoSys.run: Defines, if AnnoSys is running in test or release mode. Currently, this only defines if curators denoted in annotated records are automatically notified by email if no curators are registered for the given record. Possible values: test or release (default: test).

AnnoSys.home.dirfixed: The base directory, where AnnoSys stores any system relevant data and configuration files (default: etc/AnnoSys)

AnnoSys.servlet.context: The name of the servlet context which usually corresponds to the name of the deployed war file (default: /AnnoSys). This option must be set accordingly. Otherwise, AnnoSys will generate incorrect and unresolvable repository resourceURIs!
AnnoSys.servlet.path: The AnnoSys servlet path wihtin the servlet context (default: /AnnoSys). This option must be set accordingly. Otherwise, AnnoSys will generate incorrect and unresolvable repository resourceURIs!

AnnoSys.repository.uri: The server URL hosting the AnnoSys application (default: https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de). This option must be set accordingly. Otherwise, AnnoSys will generate incorrect and unresolvable repository resourceURIs!
AnnoSys.repository.record: The base location of the record repository (default: ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/repository/record)
AnnoSys.repository.record.temp: The location for temporary files used by the record repository (default: ${AnnoSys.repository.record}/temp)
AnnoSys.repository.record.baseId: The base resource GUID for record repository resources. The format is <base_URI>, <base_LSID-URN>, <base-InstitutionId>, <base-CollectionId>, <base-UnitId>, <base-version>, <base-format> (default: ${AnnoSys.repositorfixedy.record.uri}, ${AnnoSys.lsid.urn}, , , , ).
AnnoSys.repository.record.uri: The base URI for record resources to be accessed via LinkedOpenData or REST services (default: ${AnnoSys.repository.uri}${AnnoSys.servlet.context}/services/records).
AnnoSys.repository.model.baseId: The base resource GUID for annoation repository resources. The format is <base_URI>, <base_LSID-URN>, <base-InstitutionId>, <base-CollectionId>, <base-UnitId>, <base-version>, <base-format> (default: ${AnnoSys.repository.model.uri}, ${AnnoSys.lsid.urn}, BGBM, AnnoSys, , , ).
AnnoSys.repository.model.uri: The base URI for annotation resources to be accessed via LinkedOpenData or REST services (default: ${AnnoSys.repository.uri}${AnnoSys.servlet.context}/services/annotations).fixed
AnnoSys.repository.message: The base location of the message repository (default: ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/repository/message ).

AnnoSys.repository.model.type: Type of the annotation RDF store. Possible values: tdb (Apache Jena TDB^[10] or virtuoso (Virtuoso Open-Source Edition^[11])(default: virtuoso).; Note:For performance reasons in the user interface, the current AnnoSys implementation uses virtuoso stores only as backup repository. Anyway, the SPARQL Endpoint is served only from the virtuoso store. For that, virtuoso store must be configured as backup RDF store.

AnnoSys.repository.model: Location or URI of the annotation RDF store. While for tdb stores, a directory path is expected (e.g. ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/repository/model), virtuoso stores rather expect a URI like jdbc:virtuoso://localhost:1112

AnnoSys.repository.model.user: Login id to access an RDF store. Usually, this is required for virtuoso stores.
AnnoSys.repository.model.password: Password to access an RDF store. Usually, this is required for virtuoso stores.

AnnoSys.repository.model.backup.type: Type of the annotation RDF backup store. Possible values: tdb (Apache Jena TDB^[10] or virtuoso (Virtuoso Open-Source Edition^[11])(default: virtuoso).; Note:For performance reasons in the user interface, the current AnnoSys implementation uses virtuoso stores only as backup repository. Anyway, the SPARQL Endpoint is served only from the virtuoso store. For that, virtuoso store must be configured as backup RDF store.

AnnoSys.repository.model.backup: Location or URI of the annotation RDF backup store. While for tdb stores, a directory path is expected (e.g. ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/repository/model), virtuoso stores rather expect a URI like jdbc:virtuoso://localhost:1112

AnnoSys.repository.model.backup.user: Login id to access an RDF backup store. Usually, this is required for virtuoso stores.
AnnoSys.repository.model.backup.password: Password to access an RDF backup store. Usually, this is required for virtuoso stores.

AnnoSys.repository.agent: The base location of the Agent profiles (default: ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/repository/agent)

AnnoSys.repository.agent.baseId: The base resource GUID for agent repository resources. The format is <base_URI>, <base_LSID-URN>, <base-InstitutionId>, <base-CollectionId>, <base-UnitId>, <base-version>, <base-format> (default: ${AnnoSys.repository.record.uri}, ${AnnoSys.lsid.urn}, BGBM, AnnoSys, , , ).

AnnoSys.repository.agent.uri: The base URI for agent resources to be accessed via LinkedOpenData or REST services (default: ${AnnoSys.repository.model.uri}, same as for annotations).

AnnoSys.authDB: LocationURI of the Security Database (default: jdbc:sqlite:${AnnoSys.home.dir}/authDB.sqlite)

AnnoSys.authStore.importRecordStoreOnStart: Option to be set when roles and permissions within the Security Database should be updated based on the record available from the record repository. As roles and permissions were updated on any successful record import, this should only be activated for system maintenance reasons. Possible values: true or false (default: false)

AnnoSys.authStore.admin.role
Role name for AnnoSys administrators (default: administrator:BGBM:AnnoSys). If neither this admin role nor the admin permission below is configured in the Security Database, then the Administration tab is shown without login. So, a user having that role should be installed immediately after system installation!

AnnoSys.authStore.admin.permission
Permission name for AnnoSys administrators (default: admin:BGBM:AnnoSys:security). If neither this admin permission nor the admin role above is configured in the Security Database, then the Administration tab is shown without login. So, a user having that role should be installed immediately after system installation!

AnnoSys.namespaceURI: AnnoSys namespapce uri (default: (http://annosys.bgbm.org#).

AnnoSys.lsid.urn: lsid URN prefix for internal use (default: urn:lsid).

fixed

AnnoSys.smtp.host: SMTP server for outgoing emails

AnnoSys.smtp.port: SMTP server port for outgoing emails (default: 25) (optional).

AnnoSys.smtp.protocol: SMTP protocol to be used for outgoing emails (optional).

AnnoSys.smtp.username: Login id for outgoing SMTP server (optional).

AnnoSys.smtp.password: Password for outgoing SMTP server (optional).

AnnoSys.mail.from: Email header From to be used for outgoing emails (default: AnnoSys Message System<annosys@bgbm.org>).

AnnoSys.message.broker.start: Option to be set for starting the Message System on system start. Possible values: true or false (default:true)

AnnoSys.message.broker.name: Name for the ActiveMQ message broker instance (default:AnnoSys).

AnnoSys.message.broker.url: URL of the ActiveMQ message broker instance (default: vm://${AnnoSys.message.broker.name}).

AnnoSys.message.templatesfixed: The base location of the templates used by the Message System for outgoing emails (default: ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/resources/templates).

AnnoSys.message.subscription.db: LocationURI of the Message System's subscription database (default: jdbc:sqlite:${AnnoSys.home.dir}/repository/subscriptions/subscriptions.db).

AnnoSys.message.subscription.add.icon: Icon location for the subscription-add functionality (default: icons/add_att.gif)
AnnoSys.message.subscription.delete.icon: Icon location for the subscription-delete functionality (default: icons/application-exit-4-22x22.png)
AnnoSys.message.subscription.help.icon: Icon location for the subscription-help functionality (default: icons/system-help-3-22x22.ico)

AnnoSys.message.default.mailaddress: AnnoSys's default mailaddress for user replies (default: annosys@bgbm.org)

AnnoSys.synonyms.filefixed: List of synonym expressions used in searches with respect to families (default: ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/resources/synonyms.properties)

AnnoSys.termsOfUse.url: URL of the terms of use document (default: https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/node/54)

AnnoSys.help.pdfurl: URL of the terms of user's manual (default: https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/sites/default/files/Users%20Instructions.pdf)

AnnoSys.improve.urlfixed: URL of the AnnoSys ticket system to record bug reports or other user proposal (default: https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/trac/newticket)

AnnoSys.homepage.url: URL of the AnnoSys web home page (default: https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/)

AnnoSys.template.pdf.determination: Location of the stylesheet for creating PDF-labels for annotations of type determination (default: ${AnnoSys.message.templates}/pdf/determination.xsl)

AnnoSys.log4j.configuration: Location of the log4j configuration file (default: ${AnnoSys.home.dir}/config/log4j.properties).

AnnoSys.toolbar.annosys.icon: Icon location for the annosys web home page functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/AnnoSys-Logo-89x24.png)
AnnoSys.toolbar.publish.icon: Icon location for the publish functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/earth_upload-24x24.ico)
AnnoSys.toolbar.preferences.icon: Icon location for the preferences functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/preferences-desktop-user-password-22x22.ico)
AnnoSys.toolbar.search.icon: Icon location for the search functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/system-search-5-22x22.png )
AnnoSys.toolbar.login.icon: Icon location for the login functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/preferences-system-login-22x22.ico)
AnnoSys.toolbar.logout.icon: Icon location for the logout functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/application-exit-3-22x22.ico)
AnnoSys.toolbar.help.icon: Icon location for the help functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/help-contents-5-22x22.ico)
AnnoSys.toolbar.improve.icon: Icon location for the improve functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/trac-24x24.png)
AnnoSys.toolbar.subscriptions.iconfixed: Icon location for the subscription functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/hdd_web-24x24.ico)
AnnoSys.toolbar.administrator.icon: Icon location for the administrator functionality in the main toolbar (default: icons/user-group-properties-22x22.ico)

AnnoSys.imagebutton.undo.icon: Icon location for the undo functionality in the annotation editor (default: icons/rewind.png)
AnnoSys.imagebutton.remove.icon: Icon location for the remove functionality in the annotation editor (default: icons/gnome_edit_delete-16x16.ico)
AnnoSys.imagebutton.verify.icon: Icon location for the verify functionality in the annotation editor (default: icons/ok_st_obj.gif)
AnnoSys.imagebutton.annosys.icon: Icon location for the currently unused functionality in the annotation editor (default: = icons/A-16x16.png)

AnnoSys.recordselectionview.information.icon: Icon location for the information functionality in the import record selection dialog (default: icons/mail-mark-important-2.ico)

AnnoSys.notificationDialog.addEmail.icon: Icon location for the add email functionality in the message systems notification dialog (default: icons/icons/add_obj.gif)

AnnoSys.locales: List of supported system locales in preferred order (default: en-GB, de-DE)

shiro.ini

This is the main configuration file of the Apache Shiro^[20] system used by the Security System. For more detailed information, please refer to the Apache Shiro documentation.

Section [main]

cacheManager: Defines the cache manager implementation class (default: org.apache.shiro.cache.MemoryConstrainedCacheManager).
securityManager.cacheManager: Assigns the cache manager to the security manager (default: $cacheManager)

passwordService: Defines the password service implementation class for the password matcher (default: org.bgbm.annosys.security.shiro.ApacheSHA1PasswordService).

passwordMatcher: Defines the password matcher for the AnnoSys authentication realm (default: org.apache.shiro.authc.credential.PasswordMatcher).

passwordMatcher.passwordService: Assigns the password service to the password matcher (default: $passwordService).

annosysRealm: Defines the AnnoSys authentication realm implementation class (default: org.bgbm.annosys.security.shiro.AnnoSysJdbcRealm).

annosysRealm.credentialsMatcher: Assigns the password matcher for the AnnoSys authentication realm (default: $passwordMatcher).

annosysRealm.authenticationCachingEnabled: Enables authentication caching for the AnnoSys authentication realm (default: true).

annosysRealm.permissionsLookupEnabled: Enables permission lookup for the AnnoSys authentication realm (default: true).

sessionManager: Defines the session manager implementation class (default: org.apache.shiro.web.session.mgt.DefaultWebSessionManager).

securityManager.sessionManager: Assigns the session manager to the security manager (default: $sessionManager).

securityManager.sessionManager.globalSessionTimeout: Sets the AnnoSys session timeout (default: 36000000 (10h)).

sessionListener: Defines the session listener implementation class (default: org.bgbm.annosys.security.shiro.ShiroSessionListener). This is used to clean up web session correctly wihtin AnnoSys.

securityManager.sessionManager.sessionListeners: Assigns the session listener to the security manager (default: $sessionListener).

securityManager.sessionManager.sessionIdCookie.secure: Enables setting of secure session cookies for the session manager (default: true).

securityManager.sessionManager.sessionIdCookie.domain: Sets the cookie domain for session cookies (default: annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de)

logout.redirectUrl: Sets the redirection URL for session logout (default: /AnnoSys).

Section [urls]

/AnnoSys/logout = logout: Defines /AnnoSys/logout as logout URL.

Dependencies

The following table lists the frameworks and libraries used to implement the AnnoSys software. Any libraries were included via the Apache Maven dependencies mechanisms, which automatically resolves hundreds of further dependencies. Therefore, just the dependencies defined within the Maven pom.xml file and their licensing will be listed here.

*List of AnnoSys dependencies*
group	artifact	version	license
org.apache.activemq	activemq-all	5.8.0	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.activemq	activemq-pool	5.8.0	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.camel	camel-core	2.12.1	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.camel	camel-jms	2.12.1	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.camel	camel-activemq	2.12.1	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.camel	camel-jaxb	2.12.1	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.camel	camel-mail	2.12.1	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.camel	camel-core-osgi	2.12.1	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.axis	axis	1.4	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.shiro	shiro-core	1.2.3	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.shiro	shiro-web	1.2.3	Apache 2.0 licence
org.apache.jena	apache-jena-libs	2.10.1	Apache 2.0 licence
org.xerial	sqlite-jdbc	3.7.15-M1	Public Domain
net.sf.opencsv	opencsv	2.3	Apache 2.0 licence
commons-configuration	commons-configuration	1.9	Apache 2.0 licence
org.jdom	jdom2	2.0.5	Apache 2.0 style license
com.sun.xsom	xsom	20110809	Dual license: CDDL 1.0 and GPL v2.0
com.google.code.gson	gson	2.2.4	Apache 2.0 licence
de.neuland-bfi	jade4j	0.4.0	MIT license
junit	junit	4.11	Common Public License Version 1.0
xmlunit	xmlunit	1.5	BSD License
org.agmip.thirdparty	ximpleware-vtd-xml	2.11	GPL v2.0

Additionally, the following libraries for the Apache Jena Virtuoso driver are included directly, as they are not available as Maven artifact:

*List of AnnoSys dependencies*
library	license
virt_jena2.jar	GPL v2.0 style license
virtjdbc4.jar	GPL v2.0 style license

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TechnicalDocumentation-AnnoSys2

Contents

Introduction

Basic Workflow

System Architecture

Repository

Annotations

Original Record documents

Agent Profiles

User Interface

Security

Message System

Services

Annotation Context Model

Annotation Context Selection

Annotation Data Model

Annotation Metadata Specification

Annotation creation

Annotated record

Annotating agent

Annotated Elements Specification

Repository

Records

Annotations

W3C Open Annotation implementation of the AnnoSys Annotation Data Model

User Interface

Annotation types

Namespace Support

Namespace URI Mappings

Namespace configuration

Definition of element selectors

Definition of Annotation Types

Definition of Annotation Restrictions

Synonyms list

Security

Security Database

Secure Authentication

Agent Profile Management

Message System

Subscriptions

Implementation

Jade

Services

Preliminaries

Integrating AnnoSys with Data Portals

User interface invocation

Download via direct URL

Download via BioCASE Provider

Opening Annotation View or Annotation Editor from AnnoSys repository objects

Examples of AnnoSys dataportals integrations

Web Services

Repository

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/records

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/annotations

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/agents

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/repository/<uuid>

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/import

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/export

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/backup

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/restore

Annotations (Legacy)

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/services/annotations

Request GET ${ServicesURL}/services/annotations/<uuid>

Records (Legacy)

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/services/records

Request: GET ${ServicesURL}/services/records/<lsid:authority>/<lsid:namespace>/<lsid:objectId>/annotations

JSON Annotation Object

JSON Agent Object

SPARQL Endpoint

Setup

TODO

Virtuoso setup

Eclipse & RAP Release Update

Https-Proxy setup

annosys.properties anpassen

mvn install ausführen vor kompilieren

AnnoSys.launch Run Configuration zum Starten

Deploying AnnoSys.war file

Building AnnoSys.war file from source code

AnnoSys System Configuration