RDF and ontology mappings
Every NeoWiki page's Subjects are available as RDF. The same data is offered in two ways:
- A native projection in NeoWiki's own vocabulary. Lossless, always available, no setup.
- Ontology projections that re-express the data in an established vocabulary such as the Europeana Data Model (EDM). Each one is defined by a Mapping page.
Each export is produced on demand from the page's current data and downloads as a Turtle or TriG file. A projection can also be kept in a SPARQL store and queried live — see SPARQL queries on wikis that have a store configured, such as the NeoWiki development stack.
The Mapping page
Each Mapping page targets one ontology, named by the page title, and holds an entry for every mapped Schema. This wiki ships one:
- Mapping:EDM — the Person, City, Artwork and Artist Schemas, all mapped to EDM
Explore the projections
Follow these in order; each link downloads the projection so you can read it.
- Pablo Picasso, native vs EDM: the native file has everything, including the two-layer "Born in" relation and the page metadata; the EDM file is an
edm:Agentcarrying only the mapped vocabulary, with the unmappedSourceabsent. - Málaga, EDM: an
edm:Place— and the very same entity IRI that Picasso'srdaGr2:placeOfBirthpoints at, because sibling projections share entity IRIs. - The Milkmaid, EDM: an
edm:ProvidedCHOwhosedc:creatoris the IRI of Vermeer (anedm:Agent) and whoseedm:currentLocationis the Rijksmuseum. - Johann Sebastian Bach, EDM: Bach's birth is modelled as its own Birth Subject instead of flat fields, so his
edm:Agentprojects sparse — the same Person Schema as Picasso, a different modelling style. - ACME Inc, EDM: its Company Schema has no EDM Mapping, so the EDM projection comes back empty — a Schema without a Mapping is simply absent, which is how conformant output stays conformant.
Learn more
- RDF export reference
- Ontology mapping reference
- Person-to-EDM worked example
- Tell us what you need from RDF and ontology mapping: join the discussion.