SKOSServer.java

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@author Jose R. Perez-Aguera
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package edu.unc.ils.mrc.hive.api;

import java.util.TreeMap;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

/**
 * SKOSServer is the high level classes that we have to instantiate to get up the Vocabulary server:
* 
* The method's argument makes reference to the configuration file where the names of the thesauri 
* to load is written.
* SKOSServer manages the three basic classes which take the work to implement the HIVE basic functionalities: Concept Search 
(SKOSSearcher), Vocabularies management (SKOSScheme) and indexing SKOSTagger.
 *
 */

public interface SKOSServer {
	
	public TreeMap<String, SKOSScheme> getSKOSSchemas();
	public SKOSSearcher getSKOSSearcher();
//	public SKOSTagger getSKOSTagger();
	public SKOSTagger getSKOSTagger(String algorithm);
	public String getOrigin(QName uri);
	public void close();

}