ontolutils 0.5.0

Utility library for the work with ontologies.

from pydantic.v1 import HttpUrl

Ontolutils - Object-oriented "Things"

This package helps you in generating ontology-related objects and let's you easily create JSON-LD files.

Quickstart

Installation

Install the package:

pip install ontolutils

Usage

Imagine you want to describe a prov:Person with a first name, last name and an email address but writing the JSON-LD file yourself is too cumbersome and you want validation of the parsed parameters. The package lets you design classes, which describe ontology classes like this:

from pydantic import EmailStr, Field

from ontolutils import Thing, urirefs, namespaces
from pydantic import HttpUrl

@namespaces(prov="http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#",
            foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/")
@urirefs(Person='prov:Person',
         firstName='foaf:firstName',
         last_name='foaf:lastName',
         mbox='foaf:mbox')
class Person(Thing):
    firstName: str
    last_name: str = Field(default=None, alias="lastName")  # you may provide an alias
    mbox: EmailStr = None
    orcidId: HttpUrl = Field(default=None, alias="foaf:orcidId", use_as_id=True)  # use this as ID if available


p = Person(id="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8729-0482",
           firstName='Matthias', last_name='Probst')
# as we have set an alias, we can also use "lastName":
p = Person(id="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8729-0482",
           firstName='Matthias', lastName='Probst')
# The jsonld representation of the object will be the same in both cases:
p.model_dump_jsonld()

Now, you can instantiate the class and use the model_dump_jsonld() method to get a JSON-LD string:

{
  "@context": {
    "owl": "http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#",
    "rdfs": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#",
    "prov": "http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#",
    "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
  },
  "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8729-0482",
  "@type": "prov:Person",
  "foaf:firstName": "Matthias",
  "foaf:lastName": "Probst"
}

Documentation

Please visit the documentation for more information.