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XTriples

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  • Enhanced by LINCS

XTriples is a generic webservice to extract RDF statements from XML resources, developed by Torsten Schrade and colleagues at the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz.

LINCS provides an interface for XTriples to convert TEI documents into CIDOC CRM-compliant data for publication in ResearchSpace or elsewhere. LINCS XTriples can create linked data from TEI personographies, and “ographies” for places and organizations. Conversion for events, bibliographies, poems, prose, and letters is pending.

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XTriples and LINCS​

XTriples users can transform their TEI data into Resource Description Framework (RDF) data to contribute it to LINCS.

The current transformation options rely on documents that use the standard LINCS entity templates with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) representing entities (persons, concepts, organizations, places, or titles). Users can insert these URIs into their LINCS entity templates using LEAF-Writer.

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Currently, XTriples converts placeographies and personographies, but will convert bibliographies, eventographies, orgographies, letters, poems, and prose to CIDOC CRM by the end of summer 2023.

Prerequisites​

  • You need LEAF template files (records about people, places, organizations, or events) created using LEAF-Writer or files with tagged reconciled references to people created from one of LEAF-Writer’s Letter, Poem, and Prose templates.
  • You need experience encoding in TEI and reading TEI files.

Xtriples supports the following inputs and outputs:

  • Input: TEI-XML
  • Output: CIDOC-CRM XML and CIDOC-CRM TTL

XTriples is based on the original XTriples codebase, created by Torsten Schrade and the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur's Digtiale Akademie team. Information about the team that developed XTriples is available on the Tool Credits page.