HuCit Knowledge Base

Status

NB: hucitlib is currently being ported from Python 2 to 3. For legacy-related reasons, the version available on PyPi (hucitlib 0.2.9) still supports only Python 2. If you need Python 3 support you may want to install version 0.3.0 available in the issue-3/py3 branch (you will need to install it from sources as it currently requires a forked version of surf, since the official surf does not support Python 3 yet).

Description

The HuCit KB is a knowledge base about classical (Greek and Latin) texts, developed with the precise aim of supporting the automatic extraction of bibliographic references to such texts.

The data model of the HuCit KB is based on the following ontologies:

• CIDOC-CRM
• FRBRoo
• HuCit

It builds upon and connects with the following resources:

• Classical Works Knowledge Base
• Perseus Catalog
• Perseus Digital Library
• Wikidata
• VIAF

Installation

git clone https://github.com/mromanello/hucit_kb.git
cd hucit_kb
python setup.py install

Or via pip:

pip install hucitlib

Command Line

The library comes with a (development) Command Line Interface.

To see the documentation, try running:

hucit --help

For example, you can search works by name:

hucit find "Iliad"

or look up authors/works by CTS URNs:

hucit find urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001

Stats

Basic stats

LOD stats

Example

This is an example of how to use the HuCit KB programmatically:

>>> import pprint
>>> import pkg_resources
>>> from knowledge_base import KnowledgeBase

>>> virtuoso_cfg_file = pkg_resources.resource_filename('knowledge_base','config/virtuoso.ini')

>>> kb = KnowledgeBase(virtuoso_cfg_file)

>>> search_results = kb.search('Omero')

>>> print result.to_json()
{
  "name_abbreviations": [
    "Hom."
  ],
  "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012",
  "works": [
    {
      "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001",
      "titles": [
        {
          "language": "it",
          "label": "Iliade"
        },
        {
          "language": "la",
          "label": "Ilias"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "label": "Iliad"
        },
        {
          "language": "de",
          "label": "Ilias"
        },
        {
          "language": "fr",
          "label": "L'Iliade"
        }
      ],
      "uri": "http://purl.org/hucit/kb/works/2815",
      "title_abbreviations": [
        "Il."
      ]
    },
    {
      "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002",
      "titles": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "label": "Odyssey"
        },
        {
          "language": "de",
          "label": "Odyssee"
        },
        {
          "language": "la",
          "label": "Odyssea"
        },
        {
          "language": "fr",
          "label": "l'Odyss\u00e9e"
        },
        {
          "language": "it",
          "label": "Odissea"
        }
      ],
      "uri": "http://purl.org/hucit/kb/works/2816",
      "title_abbreviations": [
        "Od.",
        "Odyss."
      ]
    },
    {
      "urn": "urn:cts:cwkb:927.2814",
      "titles": [
        {
          "language": "la",
          "label": "Epigrammata"
        }
      ],
      "uri": "http://purl.org/hucit/kb/works/2814",
      "title_abbreviations": [
        "epigr."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "uri": "http://purl.org/hucit/kb/authors/927",
  "names": [
    {
      "language": "fr",
      "label": "Hom\u00e8re"
    },
    {
      "language": "la",
      "label": "Homerus"
    },
    {
      "language": null,
      "label": "Homeros"
    },
    {
      "language": "en",
      "label": "Homer"
    },
    {
      "language": "it",
      "label": "Omero"
    }
  ]
}