Lab: RDF programming with RDFlib: Difference between revisions

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Topics

RDF graph programming with RDFlib

Useful materials

RDFLib:

Lab Presentations:

RDFlib classes/interfaces:

from rdflib import Graph, Namespace, URIRef, BNode, Literal
from rdflib.namespace import RDF, FOAF, XSD
from rdflib.collection import Collection

RDFlib methods:

Graph: add(), remove(), triples(), serialize(), parse(), bind()

Tasks

Continue with the graph you created in Exercise 1.

Task: Continue to extend your graph:

Michael Cohen was Donald Trump's attorney.
- He pleaded guilty for lying to Congress.
Michael Flynn was adviser to Donald Trump.
- He pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI.
- He negotiated a plea agreement.

If you want, you can try to use properties and types from standard vocabularies like FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) and DC (Dublin Core), but this is something we will look at in later exercises.

Task: According to this FRONTLINE article, Gates', Cohen's and Flynn's lying were different and are described in different detail.

How can you represent "different instances of lying" as triples?
How can you modify your knowledge graph to account for this?

Task: It is possible to solve the task above without blank (or anonymous nodes). But to do so, you need to create a URI for each "instance of lying". This is a situation where blank nodes may be more suitable. Change your graph so it represents instances of lying as blank nodes.

Task: Save (serialize) your graph to a Turtle file. Add a few triples to the Turtle file with more information about Donald Trump. For example, you can add that Donald Trump is married to Melania and has several children. You can also use blank nodes to represent two of Trump's addresses when he was president:

The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500, United States, phone: 1-202-456-1414
Mar-a-Lago Club, 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480, United States

Visualise the result if you want. Read (parse) the Turtle file back into a Python program, and check that the new triples are there.

If you have more time...

Task: Write a method (function) that starts with Donald Trump prints out a graph depth-first to show how the other graph nodes are connected to him. An excerpt of the output could be:

ex:Donald_Trump
    <== ex:campaignManager ex:Paul_Manafort
        ==> ex:convictedFor ex:BankAndTaxFraud
        ...
    <== ex:attorneyFor ex:Michael_Cohen
        ==> ex:pleadedGuilty ex:LyingToCongress

Here, the <== and ==> arrows are printed to indicate the reverse of a property. We do that with a print() statement in Python, not from inside rdflib.

Note: Because you must follow triples in both subject-to-predicate and predicate-to-subject direction, you must keep a list of already visited nodes, and never return to a previously visited one.

Note: If you want a neat solution, it may be best to combine two graph traversals: first traverse the model breadth-first to create a new tree-shaped model, and then traverse the tree-shaped model depth-first to print it out with indentation. (The point of the first breadth-first step is to find the shortest path to each node.)

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 ==Topics==
-* Basic RDF graph programming with RDFlib.
+* RDF graph programming with RDFlib
-* Simple reading/writing from/to file.
-* Simple looping through graph
-==Useful Links==
+==Useful materials==
-RDFlib documentation:
+RDFLib:
 * [https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro_to_creating_rdf.html Creating Triples]
+* [https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rdf_terms.html RDF Terms]
+* [https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/namespaces_and_bindings.html Namespaces and Bindings]
 * [https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro_to_graphs.html Navigating Graphs]
-* [https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro_to_parsing.html Parsing]
+* [https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro_to_parsing.html Serialising and parsing]
-Useful classes/interfaces:
+Lab Presentations:
+* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1blXlTTTsL8jqeV5sRLhQuZ-nssNZqH_bjSgjj-kougE/edit?usp=sharing Lab 1 - RDF Presentation]
+* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17yuNqn66fhEIHPE65PyFC0H359q1k6CquE6ojDV0NB4/edit?usp=sharing Lab 2 - More RDF Presentation]
+RDFlib classes/interfaces:
 * from rdflib import Graph, Namespace, URIRef, BNode, Literal
 * from rdflib.namespace import RDF, FOAF, XSD
 * from rdflib.collection import Collection
-Useful Graph methods:
+RDFlib methods:
-* add(), remove(), triples(), serialize(), parse(), bind()
+* Graph: add(), remove(), triples(), serialize(), parse(), bind()
 ==Tasks==
+Continue with the graph you created in [[Lab: Getting started with VSCode, Python and RDFlib | Exercise 1]].
+'''Task:''' Continue to extend your graph:
+* Michael Cohen was Donald Trump's attorney.
+** He pleaded guilty for lying to Congress.
+* Michael Flynn was adviser to Donald Trump.
+** He pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI.
+** He negotiated a plea agreement.
+If you want, you can try to use properties and types from standard vocabularies like FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) and DC (Dublin Core), but this is something we will look at in later exercises.
+'''Task:''' According to [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-mueller-investigation-explained-2/ this FRONTLINE article], Gates', Cohen's and Flynn's lying were different and are described in different detail.
+* How can you represent "different instances of lying" as triples?
+* How can you modify your knowledge graph to account for this?
+'''Task:''' It is possible to solve the task above without blank (or anonymous nodes). But to do so, you need to create a URI for each "instance of lying". This is a situation where blank nodes may be more suitable. Change your graph so it represents instances of lying as blank nodes.
+'''Task:''' Save (''serialize'') your graph to a Turtle file. Add a few triples ''to the Turtle file'' with more information about Donald Trump. For example, you can add that Donald Trump is married to Melania and has several children. You can also use blank nodes to represent two of Trump's addresses when he was president:
+* The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500, United States, phone: 1-202-456-1414
+* Mar-a-Lago Club, 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480, United States
+Visualise the result if you want. Read (''parse'') the Turtle file back into a Python program, and check that the new triples are there.
+==If you have more time...==
+'''Task:''' Write a method (function) that starts with Donald Trump prints out a graph depth-first to show how the other graph nodes are connected to him. An excerpt of the output could be:
+ ex:Donald_Trump
+     <== ex:campaignManager ex:Paul_Manafort
+         ==> ex:convictedFor ex:BankAndTaxFraud
+         ...
+     <== ex:attorneyFor ex:Michael_Cohen
+         ==> ex:pleadedGuilty ex:LyingToCongress
-Create a graph in RDFlib with triples corresponding to the text above. Build on the graph from lab 1. Use your own URIs when you need to (like "http://example.org/"), but try to use terms from vocabularies such as FOAF, RDF, XSD, and others.
+Here, the <== and ==> arrows are printed to indicate the reverse of a property. We do that with a ''print()'' statement in Python, not from inside rdflib.
-Write out your graph to the console. This seems to be the cleanest way of printing the graph to me:
+''Note:'' Because you must follow triples in both subject-to-predicate and predicate-to-subject direction, you must keep a list of already visited nodes, and never return to a previously visited one.
-print(g.serialize(format="turtle"))
-But try all the following formats: "turtle", "n3", "nt", "json-ld", "xml". How do they differ? What is the default?
-Write your graph to a file. To do this, you can simply use the location parameter e.g: g.serialize(destination="triples.txt", format="turtle").
+''Note:'' If you want a neat solution, it may be best to combine two graph traversals: first traverse the model breadth-first to create a new tree-shaped model, and then traverse the tree-shaped model depth-first to print it out with indentation. (The point of the first breadth-first step is to find the shortest path to each node.)
-Look at the file and edit it so that Cade has also visited Germany and so that Emma is 26 years old.
+<!--
+==Triples you can extend for the tasks (turtle format)==
+<syntaxhighlight>
+@prefix ex: <http://example.org/> .
-Create a new program that reads your graph in again from the file and
+ex:Mueller_Investigation ex:involved ex:George_Papadopoulos,
-writes it to the console. e.g g.parse(location="triples.txt", format="turtle")
+        ex:Michael_Cohen,
-Check that your new data is there!
+        ex:Michael_Flynn,
+        ex:Paul_Manafort,
+        ex:Rick_Gates,
+        ex:Roger_Stone ;
+    ex:leadBy ex:Robert_Muller .
-Continuing with either your first or second program, write a loop that
+ex:Paul_Manafort ex:businessManager ex:Rick_Gates ;
-goes through all the triples in the graph and prints them to the
+    ex:campaignChairman ex:Donald_Trump ;
-console.
+    ex:chargedWith ex:ForeignLobbying,
+        ex:MoneyLaundering,
+        ex:TaxEvasion ;
+    ex:convictedFor ex:BankFraud,
+        ex:TaxFraud ;
+    ex:negoiated ex:PleaBargain ;
+    ex:pleadGuiltyTo ex:Conspiracy ;
+    ex:sentencedTo ex:Prison .
-Change the loop so that (a) it only loops through triples about
+ex:Rick_Gates ex:chargedWith ex:ForeignLobbying,
-Emma (b) it only loops through triples involving the names of
+        ex:MoneyLaundering,
-people.
+        ex:TaxEvasion ;
+    ex:pleadGuiltyTo ex:Conspiracy,
+        ex:LyingToFBI .
-Remove all triples about Mary using graph.remove(). (triples of Mary are from lab 1)
+</syntaxhighlight>
+-->