First Steps

This guide is intended to provide support for first time OntoWiki users. It assumes that you have a working installation either from a distributed archive or from the trunk.

First Login

If you start with a new ontowiki installation, you have only one pre-created account: Admin. This account does not have a password, so you need to change this!!

• Login with Admin and no pass
• Click on “User” -> “Preferences” Main Box (upper left side)
• Change the password and email

First Model

After that, you should create a new knowledge base. A good example is our conference model. The model URI is http://3ba.se/conferences/ and the model has this Download Link:

• Login with Admin user (if not already done)
• Click on the white circle icon in upper left of the Knowledge Bases box 
• Fill in the Model URI and the “alternative location”
• Submit (depending on your server, this can last up to 10–20 sec)

After importing the conference model, you can browse conferences, persons and topics. If your Onto Wiki has another installation URI than http://localhost/..., you have to configure another Google Maps API Key in your config.ini.

By default, every new user (and the anonymous user) can read every model but the two system models. So if you logout now, you have anonymous access to your new model. If you don't like that, you need to change that in your configuration model.

Preconfigured Knowledge Bases

A new OntoWiki has two installed Knowledge Bases:

• http://ns.ontowiki.net/SysOnt/ is the global system ontology which describe Onto Wiki configuration concepts.
• http://localhost/OntoWiki/Config/ is your local configuration model. It imports the global system ontology. Registered Users and access control configuration will be saved here.