Concept

Retrieves the descriptions of this concept

Retrieves concepts linked to this concept according to one or more relations from the remote Controlled Vocabulary.
The size of the extension, that is the number of concepts resulting from the extension, can be retrieved using the method extensionSize

 // extends a concept using two relations;
                                             // the following styles are equivalents
                                            
                                             // uses GIAPI.Relation instances
                                             var rel = [];
                                             rel.push(GIAPI.Relation.BROADER);
                                             rel.push(GIAPI.Relation.NARROWER);
                                            
                                             // uses GIAPI.Relation instances values
                                             rel = [];
                                             rel.push(GIAPI.Relation.BROADER.value);
                                             rel.push(GIAPI.Relation.NARROWER.value);
                                            
                                             // uses GIAPI.Relation instances value
                                             rel = [];
                                             rel.push('skos%3Abroader');
                                             rel.push('skos%3Anarrower');
                                            
                                             // uses a combined style
                                             rel = [];
                                             rel.push(GIAPI.Relation.BROADER);
                                             rel.push('skos%3Anarrower');
                                            
                                             // extends the concept
                                             concept.extend( function(result,error) {
                                            
                                             if(error){
                                             alert('Error occurred: '+error);
                                             return;
                                             }
                                            
                                             for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
                                            
                                             var con = concepts[i];
                                             var uri = con.uri();
                                             var label = con.label();
                                             var desc = con.description();
                                             var thes = con.sourceThesaurus();
                                             var rel = con.rootRelation();
                                            
                                             // invokes stringify method on all returned concepts
                                             alert(con.stringify());
                                               }
                                             }, rel);

Retrieves the number of concepts resulting from the extension of this concept with the specified relation

Retrieves the labels of this concept

Retrieves the Property of this Concept with the specified name

Retrieves the relation used to find this concept from the origin concept

Retrieves the name of the Controlled Vocabulary that originated this concept

Generates a string representation of this concept

Retrieves the URI of this concept