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. Special:Mappings lists them all; 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.

You don't need these links to reach an export: on any subject page, the Data tab offers per-projection downloads (Turtle or TriG) and a copy-IRI control, and the sidebar has a View RDF link.

1. 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:Agent carrying only the mapped vocabulary, with the unmapped Source absent.
2. Málaga, EDM: an edm:Place with the very same entity IRI that Picasso's rdaGr2:placeOfBirth points at, because sibling projections share entity IRIs.
3. The Milkmaid, EDM: an edm:ProvidedCHO whose dc:creator is the IRI of Vermeer (an edm:Agent) and whose edm:currentLocation is the Rijksmuseum.
4. Johann Sebastian Bach, EDM: Bach's birth is modelled as its own Birth Subject instead of flat fields, so his edm:Agent projects sparse. Same Person Schema as Picasso, a different modelling style.
5. ACME Inc, EDM: its Company Schema has no EDM Mapping, so the EDM projection comes back empty. An unmapped Schema is simply left out, so the projection stays conformant.

Learn more

• Special:Mappings: every ontology Mapping on this wiki
• RDF export reference
• Ontology mapping reference
• Person-to-EDM worked example
• Tell us what you need from RDF and ontology mapping: join the discussion.