Welcome to LIFT’s documentation!

LIFT (Linked data from TEI) is a Python-based tool for transforming your TEI XML document into an RDF graph, ready for publication as linked open data on the web.

Note

This project is under active development.

• Introduction
• Prepare your TEI document
  • Provide TEI elements with unique identifiers using @xml:id
  • Provide an at least minimal TEI header
  • Use <person> and <persName> to represent persons and in-text references to such persons
  • Use <place> and <placeName> to represent places and in-text references to such places
  • Assign a @sameAs attribute to real-world entities
  • Encode relationships between persons within <listRelation>
  • Use <event> to represent events, either within <person> or <place>
  • Full example
• The RDF graph
  • Persons
  • Places
  • Relations
  • Events
• How the scripts work
  • A Jupyter notebook walking through LIFT’s TEI to RDF transformation line-by-line
  • Modify the scripts and/or run them locally
• Further readings and resources
  • Tutorials
  • Suggested readings
  • Useful resources