MkRDF

MkDocs plugin to build pages from RDF Graphs.

A use case it to covers the representation of an entire graph with templates to represent instances of each class.

You need to install mkrdf e.g. with pip and configure your mkdocs setup to use it.

The section in your mkdocs.yml file could look as follows:

[…]

plugins:
  - mkrdf:
      graph_file: simpsons.ttl
      base_iri: https://simpsons.example.org/
      selection:
        preset: subject_relative
      class_template_map:
        http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person: person.html
      instance_template_map:
        https://simpsons.example.org/Marge: marge.html

Selection

The selection is responsible to choose for which IRIs from the provided graph a page should be build. The configuration key has four sub keys, preset, query, list, and file. If multiple of the keys are set, the union of the selections is build.

• preset can hold the values subject_relative (default), subject_all, or none,
  • subject_relative selects all subject IRIs that share the configured base_iri, i.e. SELECT ?resourceIri { ?resourceIri ?p ?o . FILTER regex(str(?resourceIri), concat("^", str(?base_iri))) },
  • subject_relative selects all subject IRIs irrespective of the base_iri, i.e. SELECT ?resourceIri { ?resourceIri ?p ?o }.
  • none will skip all other selections and not IRI is selected
• query or queries needs to provide a string (or list of strings) with a valid SPARQL 1.1 query, that binds the variable ?resourceIri to all selected IRIs.
• list an explicit list of IRIs
• file a file explicitly listing the IRIs

Related Projects

The implementation of jinja-rdf, kisumu, and mkrdf is a result of the lessons learned from JekyllRDF.

Jinja RDF

Jinja RDF

The library that provides the filters and data model (the core).

Kisumu

kisumu

A simple command line tool and library to render a template + an RDF graph -> a static document. It is also build on top of Jinja RDF.

Jekyll RDF

Jekyll RDF

The implementation of jinja-rdf, kisumu, and mkrdf is a result of the lessons learned from JekyllRDF. Currently the three tools don't cover all features, that were implemented in JekyllRDF, if you miss a feature that you need, please provide a pull request to one of the projects. (Read more about the relation.)

Migrate from Jekyll RDF

If you migrate from Jekyll RDF you need to setup a new mkdocs project, adjust your templates and configuration. Many things are named differently with the hope to make it simpler for users of mkrdf without previous knowledge about Jekyll RDF.

Configuration

path is now graph_file restriction is now selection (note, that the query now binds the variable ?resourceIri instead of ?resourceUri) baseiri is now base_iri

Filters

Those are the filters provided by JekyllRDF.

• rdf_get (not available)
• rdf_property -> property, properties Resource[]
• rdf_inverse_property -> property_inv, properties_inv
• sparql_query -> query
• rdf_container (not available, TODO)
• rdf_collection (not available, TODO)

Versioning

For now, I follow the 0ver scheme.