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
- Provide TEI elements with unique identifiers using
- The RDF graph
- How the scripts work
- Further readings and resources