Fedora Resource Index

The Fedora Resource Index service is described in http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCR30/Resource+Index

iTQL

The resource index is queried by iTQL (interactive Tucana Query Language?), which is largely similar to SQL (Structured Query Language). A guide to iTQL can be found on http://docs.mulgara.org/itqlcommands/select.html

This has a graphical user interface, which it very helpful to users, but not programmatically useful. The interface is described here: http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCR30/Resource+Index+Search

We have prepared a number of useful iTQL queries, that can serve as examples. These can be tested on the doms testbed in http://localhost:8080/fedora/risearch

Find all direct subclasses of doms:ContentModel_File in the Base collection

select $object
from <#ri>
where      $object <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> <info:fedora/doms:ContentModel_File>
      and  $object <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#isPartOfCollection> <info:fedora/doms:DOMS_Base_Collection>

Find the ancestors of doms:ContentModel_AudioPreservationFile

select  $object
from <#ri>
where walk(
        <info:fedora/doms:ContentModel_AudioPreservationFile> <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> $object 
        and $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> $object )

Find all objects that relate to doms:ContentModel_DOMS via a series of extendsModel relations.

select $subject
from <#ri>
where walk(
        $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> <info:fedora/doms:ContentModel_DOMS>
        and $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> $obbject
        );

Same as above, but with more expressive output, namely the relation-chain.

select $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> $object
from <#ri>
where walk(
        $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> <info:fedora/doms:ContentModel_DOMS>
        and $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> $object
        );

Anylevel children of ContentModel_DOMS in the base collection

select $subject
from <#ri>
where walk(
        $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> <info:fedora/doms:ContentModel_DOMS>
        and $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> $object
        )
        and $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#isPartOfCollection> <info:fedora/doms:DOMS_Base_Collection>

Any objects relating to Root collection through a series of "isPartOfCollection" relations.

select   $subject '<isPartOfCollection>' $object 
from <#ri>
where walk(
        $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#isPartOfCollection> <info:fedora/doms:Root_Collection>
        and $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#isPartOfCollection> $object )

All Templates of content models in the base collection

select $defbject
from <#ri>
where walk(
        $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> <info:fedora/doms:ContentModel_DOMS>
        and $subject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#extendsModel> $object
        )
        and $defbject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#isTemplateFor> $subject
        and $defbject <http://doms.statsbiblioteket.dk/relations/default/0/1/#isPartOfCollection> <info:fedora/doms:DOMS_Base_Collection>

Interacting with the Resource index

For programs, there are two interfaces.

REST interface

The first is the REST-based interface defined in http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCR30/Resource+Index+Search#ResourceIndexSearch-ApplicationInterface

Java interface

The second is the Fedora client, which has a method getTuples(). See http://www.fedora-commons.org/documentation/3.0/javadocs/index.html?fedora/client/FedoraClient.html.

The method getTuples() has the following javadoc

    /**
     * Get tuples from the remote resource index. The map contains
     * <em>String</em> values for parameters that should be passed to the
     * service. Two parameters are required: 1) lang 2) query Two parameters to
     * the risearch service are implied: 1) type = tuples 2) format = sparql See
     * http://www.fedora.info/download/2.0/userdocs/server/webservices/risearch/#app.tuples
     */

which is unfortunately outdated, but still largely correct.

The method returns an org.trippi.TupleIterator which parses the sparql result. The javadoc for this can be found on http://trippi.sourceforge.net/api/org/trippi/TupleIterator.html, which is for 1.1.2 Note that the page is not updated either. The releaseses can be found in the svn, and has reached version 1.4. Fedora uses 1.3.2, which is unknown, but 1.3.1 can be checked out. Look at http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=123675 to do this.

The result consist of a list of maps. The iterator iterates through this list, returning maps. The iterator has a method, names(), giving the keys to each map. The values in the maps are of type Node, see http://jrdf.sourceforge.net/0.3.4/doc/javadoc/org/jrdf/graph/Node.html

In practice each node will always be a Literal node or a URI reference Node or a Blank node, see the following

• http://jrdf.sourceforge.net/0.3.4/doc/javadoc/org/jrdf/graph/Literal.html,

• http://jrdf.sourceforge.net/0.3.4/doc/javadoc/org/jrdf/graph/URIReference.html,

• http://jrdf.sourceforge.net/0.3.4/doc/javadoc/org/jrdf/graph/BlankNode.html