Semantic web, linked datasets
- On the web
- Machine Readable
- Non-proprietary format
- RSF standards
- Linked RDF
Get an overview of the principles of Linked Data with "Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space" by Tom Heath and Christian Bizer
RDF translator on appspot.com from about any language to about any other. See also easyrdf.org
-L
refers to the location
-H
refers to the header
more info with curl --help
- rdf/xml
curl -o myFileName.xml -L -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" myURI
- json
curl -o myFileName.json -L -H "Accept: application/json" myURI
- turtle
curl -o myFileName.ttl -L -H "Accept: text/turtle" myURI
- html
curl -o myFileName.html -L -H "Accept: text/html" myURI
Use #
separator for grouping, small coherent datasets, simple structures.
Use /
separator for big datasets, modularity, to be more precise.
Read more about cool URIs on W3
Code/Decode a URL on meyerweb.com
Find namespace associated with prefix on prefix.cc
Common prefixes
- Generals
prefix | URI | comment |
---|---|---|
owl | http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# | Web Ontology Language |
rdfs | http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# | Resource Description Framework Schema |
rdf | http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# | Resource Description Framework |
rdfa | http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa# | Resource Description Framework in Attributes |
sh | http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl# | SHACL Shapes Constraints Language vocabulary |
void | http://rdfs.org/ns/void# | Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets |
dcat | https://www.w3.org/ns/dcat# | Data CATalog vocabulary |
- Specialized
prefix | URI | comment |
---|---|---|
xsd | http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema# | RDF compatible XSD types |
foaf | http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ | Friend Of A Friend social vocabulary |
rel | http://purl.org/vocab/relationship/ | Relationship, extension of FOAF |
skos | http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# | SKOS knowledge vocabulary |
skosxl | http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos-xl# | SKOS eXtenstion for Labels |
dct (dcterms) | http://purl.org/dc/terms | Dublin Core Metadata Initiative : Metadata Terms |
dc | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ | DCMI : Metadata Elements |
dctype | http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/ | DCMI Type vocabulary |
prov | https://www.w3.org/ns/prov# | Provenance vocabulary |
qb | http://purl.org/linked-data/cube# | Data Cube vocabulary |
cc | http://creativecommons.org/ns# | Creative Common licenses |
sawsdl | http://www.w3.org/ns/sawsdl# | Semantic Annotation for Web Services Description Language |
ma | http://www.w3.org/ns/ma-ont# | Ontology for media resources |
- Datasets
prefix | URI | comment |
---|---|---|
db | http://dbpedia.org/ | DBpedia data |
W3C recommendation on OWL
W3C recommendation on RDFS
W3C recommendation on RDF/turtle syntax
W3C recommendation on RDF/XML syntax
W3C recommendation on RDFa syntax to embed RDF in html
Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the internet
W3C recommendation on XML datatypes
W3C recommendation on SHACL syntax
W3C recommendation on SPARQL syntax
W3C recommendation on Data Cube vocabulary for multi-dimensional data
W3C recommendation on Provenance Data Model PROV-DM
W3C recommendation on Provenance Ontology that expressed PROV-DM with OWL2
W3C recommendation on Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language and XML Schema SAWDSDL that is an extension of WSDL
W3C recommendation on Ontology for Media Resources
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System homepage has 4 classes and 28 properties in OWL
SKOS-XL SKOS eXtension for Labels homepage to transform labels into resources
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative to describe documents has 22 classes and 55 properties. Note that DC Elements is a subset of DC Terms. DC Type is a different vocabulary containing types of things that can be described using DC terms.
Creative Commons homepage to describe rights associated to a resource, has 6 main classes, 12 secondary classes and 11 properties
Friend Of A Friend specifications for social networkd, has 13 classes and 62 properties
Relationship is an extension of FOAF to describe relations between persons
Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets to describe datasets and linksets
Data Catalog Vocabulary recommendation to describe any dataset, not only rdf
W3C RDF/XML validator renders triples and graph from RDF/XML
Download standalone version of Corese from inria.fr for SPARQL queries and SHACL checks
Download Protégé from stanford.edu for ontology edition
Get simple RDFa samples on rdfa.info
W3C RDFa distiller and parser to get triples from html
Map a given vocabulary or append IRI = ...
DBpedia with Flint SPARQL editor
DBpedia with Virtuoso
INSEE
Visualize the Linked Open Data Cloud on lod-cloud.net View and search ontologies and datasets classified by topics.
Visualize Linked Open Vocabularies LOV
Annotate text with DBpediaSpotlight with API too