LOD Save the Queen

Group project for the Information Science and Cultural Heritage 2024/25 course.

The project maps the cultural impact of fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood using an ontology-based approach along with structured, linked data.

The site of the project is live at metamuses.github.io/lod-save-the-queen.

Repository structure

csv

The csv directory contains the CSV files of our 10 items, one for each item, described in natural language using a triple-like subject-predicate-object structure.

csv2ttl

The csv2ttl directory contains the Python script that converts the CSV files into Turtle format using RDFLib and the JSONs files used to map namespaces, entities, and predicates from natural language to RDF.

To run the script, use the following command:

python csv2ttl/csv2ttl.py

The generated TTL files are saved in the ttl/csv2ttl directory.

html

The html directory contains the HTML, CSS and image files used to generate the site of this project, which is hosted on GitHub Pages.
This include the XSLT-generated HTML file from the XML/TEI encoding, which is rendered as an iframe in the site.

models

The models directory contains the theoretical and conceptual models of our ontology.

ttl

The ttl directory contains

• the Turtle file of the project global ontology, which is the result of the integration of the CSV files and some custom handcrafted elements
• the Turtle files generated from the csv2ttl script (see above)
• the Turtle file generated from the xml2ttl script (see below)

xml

The xml directory contains the XML/TEI encoding of our source book "100 Days of Active Resistance" and the XSL stylesheet used to convert it into HTML format.

To run the conversion, use the following command:

xsltproc xml/encoding.xsl xml/encoding.xml > html/encoding.html

The generated HTML file is saved in the html directory in order to be served by the site.

xml2ttl

The xml2ttl directory contains the Python script that converts the XML/TEI encoding of our source book into Turtle format using RDFLib.

To run the script, use the following command:

python xml2ttl/xml2ttl.py

The generated file is saved in the ttl/xml2ttl directory.

Team members

• Tommaso Barbato
• Nicol D'Amelio
• Martina Uccheddu