The occupation element in xEAC now supports a SPARQL-based lookup mechanism to link EAC-CPF records to terms defined in the newly-released linked open data Getty AAT.
I won't go into great detail about how this works in the back end, because it is basically identical to the process by which I hooked EADitor into the AAT with EAD genreform elements, which I covered in a blog post last month.
One thing to note, however, is that the xEAC occupation lookup filters for terms that contain "Agents Facet" in the gvp:parentStringAbbrev property. There are different categories of terms--object types, agents, stylistic periods, etc.--that are not semantically distinguished, but at least contain a string in a generic field which allows filtering. I hope that the Getty will move forward with a more formal representation of these facets to improve querying efficiency.
Therefore queries for occupations look something like this:
I plan to apply these filters to the LOD thesaurus editor for kerameikos.org in order to provide a more accurate list of style periods, pottery techniques, wares, and shapes for linking kerameikos URIs to Getty AAT identifiers. For example, "Black Figure" is defined by the Getty as both a technique and a style or period, so "Black Figure" on kerameikos, defined by http://kerameikos.org/ontology#Technique, should refer to the Getty's technique facet (not the style or period) for the term with owl:sameAs.
One thing to note, however, is that the xEAC occupation lookup filters for terms that contain "Agents Facet" in the gvp:parentStringAbbrev property. There are different categories of terms--object types, agents, stylistic periods, etc.--that are not semantically distinguished, but at least contain a string in a generic field which allows filtering. I hope that the Getty will move forward with a more formal representation of these facets to improve querying efficiency.
Therefore queries for occupations look something like this:
SELECT ?c ?label WHERE {
?c rdf:type gvp:Concept .
?c skos:inScheme aat: .
?c skos:prefLabel ?label .
?c luc:term "president" .
?c gvp:parentStringAbbrev ?facet
FILTER regex(?facet, "Agents Facet")
FILTER langMatches(lang(?label), "en")}
ORDER BY ASC(?label)
LIMIT 25
I plan to apply these filters to the LOD thesaurus editor for kerameikos.org in order to provide a more accurate list of style periods, pottery techniques, wares, and shapes for linking kerameikos URIs to Getty AAT identifiers. For example, "Black Figure" is defined by the Getty as both a technique and a style or period, so "Black Figure" on kerameikos, defined by http://kerameikos.org/ontology#Technique, should refer to the Getty's technique facet (not the style or period) for the term with owl:sameAs.
Ethan, you must be kidding ;-) Of course there's a much faster way to get what you need: gvp:broaderTransitive. If you don't RTFM, explore the data but check that Inference dropdown!
ReplyDelete1. Look at eg "presidents" with inference
http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300025470?inference=all
2. Notice gvp:broaderTransitive aat:300024978, aat:300024979, aat:300024980, aat:300025426, aat:300025427, aat:300025432, aat:300264089 (yay!)
3. How to pick the best root? Click on the Hierarchy tab
4. aat:300024979 "people (agents)" or aat:300024980 looks good
5. use gvp:prefLabelGVP instead of lang "en" because some may NOT have an "en" prefLabel
6. Don't forget the wildcard, or you'll miss presidents' wives :-)
7. Rewriten query (nicer, eh?):
SELECT * {
?c a gvp:Concept; skos:inScheme aat: ;
gvp:broaderTransitive aat:300024980 ;
gvp:prefLabelGVP/xl:literalForm ?label ;
luc:term "president*"
} ORDER BY ?label LIMIT 25
8. Would be much obliged if you can enlarge the Post Comment box here
9. Consider NOT ordering by ?label, since luc:term natively returns them in relevance order:
ReplyDelete• Order by ?label: first ladies, presidents, vice-presidents
• by Lucene relevance: presidents, vice-presidents, first ladies
Thanks for this delightful use case! Added query to doc