Building environment

The following software need to be installed in your machine in order to run ASIA-backend:

• Java v. 1.8
• Maven

Build the library

mvn package

Usage

Use ASIA4JFactory builder to get a GrafterizerHashtableClient object.

  ASIA4J hClient = ASIA4JFactory.getClient(asiaEndpoint, GrafterizerHashtableClient.class);

You can now use your client to reconcile or extend.

Reconciliation

To reconcile used the reconcile provided by your client.

In the following example the string "Berlin" is reconciled with a threshold of 0.1 using the geonames service. The reconciliation service in ASIA-Backend is suggested to reconcile "Berlin" against the type "A.ADM1"; such a suggestion, is optional. The result of the reconciliation process is an id with the most suitable entity identifier (in this case 6554818).

String geoID =  hClient.reconcile(
                new Annotation(
                        new SingleColumnReconciliation(
                                "Berlin",
                                0.1,
                                Collections.singletonList("A.ADM1")
                        ),
                        "geonames"));

(Deprecated) Reconcile a single column

The GrafterizerClient exposes a method that allows you to achieve the above result without providing the Annotation object (as in the old ASIA4J interface). This method is deprecated and then removed from the interface, but it's still implemented in the GrafterizerClient.

String geoID = ((GrafterizerHashtableClient) hClient)
                .reconcileSingleColumn("Berlin", "A.ADM1", .1, "geonames");

Extension

The identified retrieved using the reconciliation functionality can be used to extract from the reference knowledge base a data related to that entity. The entity's properties can be queried using the extendFromConciliator method. In the following code snippet used the Berlin ID to obtain the parentADM1 (that is the id of the region) using the geonames service.

String property = client.extendFromConciliator("6554818", "parentADM1", "geonames");