Serves 23,376 SKOS Concepts
INGREDIENTS
Text editor: Vim, Emacs, TextMate, etc
Python
BeautifulSoup
rdflib
Internet connection
DIRECTIONS
Open a new file using your favorite text editor.
Instantiate an RDF graph with a dash of rdflib.
Use python’s urllib to extract the HTML for each of the Times Topics Index Pages, e.g. for A.
Parse HTML into a fine, queryable data structure using BeautifulSoup.
Locate topic names and [...]
I’m just in the process of getting my head around SPARQL a bit more. At $work, Clay and I ran up against a situation where we wanted a query that would return a subgraph from an entire SKOS concept scheme for any assertions involving a particular concept URI as the subject. Easy enough right?
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Alistair wanted to have some data to demonstrate the potential of linked library data, so I quickly converted 10K MARC records (using a slightly modified version of MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl and rewrote the subjects as lcsh.info URIs using a few lines of python…all a bit hackish, but it got this particular job done quickly.
The rewriting of [...]
If you happen to be in the DC area on May 8th and are interested in linked data and the practical application of semantic web technologies like RDF and OWL please join us at the Library of Congress for a presentation by Alistair Miles, key developer of SKOS, and semantic web practitioner at the University [...]
Recently there was a bit of interesting news around a MARBI Discussion Paper 2008-DP04 regarding semweb technologies at LC.
Related to this work are RDF/OWL representations and models for MODS and MARC, which we are also developing. Several representations of MODS in RDF/OWL, such as the one from the SIMILE project, have been made [...]
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