This repository contains scripts and mapping files which will:
- Download and extract metadata from the TEI files which form the catalogue of
Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries, including both manuscript records and work/person/place authorities. - Run the x3ml tool to generate RDF using the CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo ontologies, from that metadata.
- Upload the RDF to GitHub. The format is RDF/XML and the output is chunked into multiple files to avoid memory issues and reduce processing times.
- A Dockerfile to set up a virtual container in which to run the above, if required.
To run the process:
- Download or clone this repository.
- Go to the bodleian-RDF repository and click the Fork button.
- Edit the settings.conf file, following the instructions within.
- On UNIX systems such as Linux or MacOS, which have Java, Git client and cURL installed,
run
bash scripts/main.sh - On Windows systems, on which Docker has been installed, run:
docker build -t bodleian-mmm .thendocker run bodleian-mmm - To contribute the updated RDF files back to MMM's base repository, go to your fork and click the New pull request button.
The information extracted, and the mappings to ontologies, are tailored to the needs of the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project. The scripts will not work, without modification, on other TEI manuscript descriptions, even ones using the same schema. But they might be of interest to others building their own mappings.
More information can be found at https://mapping-manuscript-migrations.github.io/