VIE.js

VIE.js (“Vienna IKS Editables”) is a JavaScript library for implementing decoupled Content Management Systems and semantic interaction in web applications. In short, VIE provides a bridge between Backbone.js and the semantic web.

With VIE you can easily interact with RDFa-annotated content on your pages, as well as connect with various semantic services like Apache Stanbol and DBpedia.

All entities you deal with are managed in a centralized collection, and VIE provides ways to deal with namespaces, relations between entities, and if needed, your content type system.

VIE is used as the basis for a wide variety of tools ranging from content annotators to full front-end editing interfaces and semantic browser extensions. You can find many of these from the Widgets section of the VIE-homepage.

Features

• The base-module just adds support for adding the VIE.js library and the VIE.js widgets via drupal_add_library().
• The optional VIE.js autocomplete module allows using the VIE.js autocomplete widget as field API widget with term reference fields.

Requirements

• Backbone.js module
• Libraries API
• jQuery Update (dev version from 12.12.12 or later) - VIE.js requires jQuery >=1.6, thus select an according jQuery version. Recommended is the 1.7.x version.

Installation

• Download the required javascript libraries. The easiest way to do so is via drush make, i.e. run the following command from the module folder:
  
  
  drush make vie.make --no-core --contrib-destination=/path/to/drupal/sites/all/
  

  
  

• VIE.js is configured to make use of an Apache Stanbol installation at http://localhost:8080 by default. This can be changed by setting the variable 'iksce_vie_stanbol_url', e.g. put in your settings.php file:
  
  
  $conf['iksce_vie_stanbol_url'] = 'http://example.com:8080';

  
  

Related projects

• Search API Stanbol
• IKS Content Enhancement Demo

Credits

• This module is developed by Wolfgang Ziegler (fago) and Roni Kantis (bfr).
• Development is sponsored by Druid and drunomics.