Code to transform Ligatus XML descriptions of bookbindings into CIDOC-CRM RDF files (typed through the Language of Bindings thesaurus). Draft1-2016-06-26
This code was written specifically for a research project at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel http://www.hab.de/de/home/wissenschaft/gastforscher-und-alumni/stipendiatenprofile/alberto-campagnolo.html. However the code takes a number of general parameters (see below) to adapt the output to other projects (for the generation of the URI for example).
The code is written in modules. The master file is ligatus2rdf.xsl, which includes all the other modules via <xsl:include />
This template takes 4 general parameters to adapt the code to different projects.
<!-- This, non compulsory, parameter tells the stylesheet to generate output with a long list of namespace URI
that will be converted into shortened URI in Turtle for easier reading; input should be in the form of
'yes' or 'no'-->
<xsl:param name="toTurtle" select="'yes'"/>
<!-- This, non compulsory, parameter tells the stylesheet whether to generate the reference to the SVG line
drawings of endleaf structures or not; input should be in the form of 'yes' or 'no' -->
<xsl:param name="SVG" select="'yes'"/>
<!-- This parameter feeds the stylesheet with the general URI of the digital collection of which every other
single URI is a child; input should be in the form of a complete URI, e.g. 'http://diglib.hab.de' -->
<xsl:param name="collectionURI" required="yes"/>
<!-- This, non compulsory, parameter allows the stylesheet to know what preferred acronym to use in the
generation of the project's URIs, e.g. 'HAB'-->
<xsl:param name="collectionAcronym" select="'HAB'"/>
The only parameter that is required at runtime is the 'collectionURI' that is used to generated all the project's URIs based on a collection web address.
The folder structure of the project is as follows:
| Folder name | Description |
|---|---|
| xslt_LigatusXML_to_CIDOC-CRM-RDF | folder containing all the xslt modules (this GitHub repository) |
| Ligatus-HAB_schema | folder containing the Ligatus XML schema (based on basic-1.8_0.xsd); the file is here in the reference file folder (see also this readme file) |
| records | folder containinng the XML bookbinding description records |
| RDF | folder containing the CIDOC-CRM XML/RDF (pretty print) output files |
| SVG | folder containing the SVG generated via Endleaves_CSS.xsl; XSLT codes part of the XSLTransformations repository |
The Oxygen project file is: HABdescriptions.xpr (inserted here for reference)