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= PIMO Service =

The PimoService is an implementation of the PIMO (see 
[http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2006/01-pimo-report/pimOntologyLanguageReport.html PIMO Technical Report]), which is an improved manifestation of the Wikitology idea.

 * Interface: source:branches/gnowsis0.9/gnowsis-server/src/java/org/gnowsis/pimo/PimoService.java
 * JavaDoc: [http://www.gnowsis.org/statisch/0.9/doc/gnowsis-server/javadoc/org/gnowsis/pimo/PimoService.html PimoService.html]

It allows the user to create things, classes and properties in his personal information model and link them together or to other (external) resources and things.

Tasks of the PIMO-Service:
 * during the first start of the system, the PIMO-Service creates and instance of Pimo-Person for the user and hangs it to the pimo-model.

some useful facts:
 * While the given labels are preserved, the URIs may differ due to syntax restrictions.
 * It is possible to create different things with the same name.
 * It is NOT possible to create different classes with the same name.

The PIMO does support inference, where we use full t-box inferencing but you have to do a-box inferencing on retrieval. more see here:
 * about PimoInference

= Managing Domain Ontologies =
Adding ontologies, removing ontologies, updating ontologies is implemented in the PimoService. A convenient interface to these functions is implemented in the web-gui:

 * http://127.0.0.1:9993/gnowsis-server/ontologies.jsp - ontology management interface in your gnowsis

'''A list of ontologies that work with gnowsis is at DomainOntologies.'''