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Ontopy

Simple RDF to Python mapper built on top of rdflib.

Ontopy is very alpha.

Installation

Use setuptools to install Ontopy.

easy_install ontopy

Usage

Declare resource classes as Python classes.

>>> class Band(RDFClass):
...     endpoint_uri = "http://dbpedia.org/sparql"
...     prefix = "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/"
...     label = "Band" # optional - class name used as default

Interact with their data in a nice friendly Python way:

>>> Band.resources[0]
<Band: http://dbpedia.org/resource/%21%21%21>
>>> kraftwerk = Band("http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kraftwerk")
>>> kraftwerk
<Band: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kraftwerk>

RDF property names are commonly URIs. rdflib namespaces provide convenient shortcuts for names.

>>> from rdflib.namespace import RDFS
>>> kraftwerk[RDFS.label]
u'Kraftwerk'

See the docstring for RDFClass for more examples.