This converter translates the Getty AAT and ULAN vocabularies provided by the Getty Foundation into their SKOS (RDF) representation.

Source files

Parent directory for source files in the AnnoCultor source repository.

Data

Large samples of the vocabularies are provided for download at Getty. To run the demo you need to download AAT zip file and ULAN zip file, and extract them to annocultor/demos/converters/getty/input_source/. Specifically, we need files AAT.xml and ULAN.xml.

To convert the complete vocabularies you need to obtain a license and their complete XML sources from Getty.

Running

Invoke convert.bat AAT or convert.bat ULAN from annocultor/demos/converters/getty/

Converter

Both converters share

  • conversion parameters
  • several common conversion rules

    The complete AAT converter and ULAN converter translate:

  • terms to skos terms,
  • labels to skos:prefLabel and skos:altLabel,
  • concept hierarchy into the skos:broader relation.

    In addition, it creates a number of custom properties, mostly for ULAN.

    This converter illustrates the following AnnoCultor features:

  • part-of objects, converting a part-of object to a few properties of the parent object
  • wildcards on source files
  • property rename
  • faceted property rename
  • using listeners on converter and listeners on object rules together.

Acknowledgments

This converter was developed with support from the Europeana project}.