Generate HTML forms from RDF/Turtle

tgForms is a JavaScript library to generate HTML forms from RDF/Turtle. It was originally written for the use with TextGrid.

If you have node.js and Bower installed, you can get the latest development version of tgForms with the following command:

$ bower install hriebl/tgForms

If you want to download a specific pre-compiled version of tgForms, just append the version number to the command, e.g.:

$ bower install hriebl/tgForms#0.1

Compiling tgForms is easy if you have CoffeeScript and Cake installed. In the tgForms directory, execute:

$ cake build

You may also minify the compiled JS file by running these commands:

$ wget "http://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-latest.zip"
$ unzip -nx "compiler-latest.zip"
$ cake minify

tgForms understands some RDF Schema properties, namely rdfs:domain, rdfs:label, and rdfs:range, and interprets their subjects as form fields. Forms can be generated for classes that are used as objects of rdfs:domain. The library also comes with the following specific properties to refine forms:

Sets the input type for a property.

Sets the default value for a property.

Sets a dropdown option for a property.

Sets the priority for a property. Higher priorities appear first.

Makes a property repeatable.

The following input types are available for the use with tgforms:hasInput:

A button. May be manually scripted.

A checkbox. Useful for boolean properties.

A dropbox menu. Useful if there is a limited number of options.

A text field. Useful for short texts.

A text area. Useful to longer texts.

tgForms is compatible with the RDF/Turtle from schema.rdfs.org. If you like, take a look at some CoffeScript code that generates a form for the schema:BarOrPub class.

TODO: Add up-to-date information about public methods, for the moment take a look at the source code.