AnnoCultor allows converting databases and XML files to RDF, and semantically tag them with links to vocabularies, to be published on Linked Data and the Semantic Web.
AnnoCultor Tagger allows assigning semantic tags to your data. Here the tags correspond to terms from existing vocabularies, e.g. term 'Paris' from Geonames contains translations in a dozen languages, augmented with coordinates, population, and other data. AnnoCultor can find and link this tag to a document, allowing new features, such as showing this document on a map.
AnnoCultor Tagger has been recently used to semantically tag nearly 7 million records from the Europeana collections with location data, see tagging statistics report.
AnnoCultor is suitable for any vocabulary, with experience in Geonames and Getty TGN (places), Getty ULAN and RKD (people), Getty AAT and Gemet (general terminology), SVCN (mix), and others.
AnnoCultor Converter allows converting SQL databases, XML files, and SPARQL datasets to RDF. Converters are written in XML in a simple declarative way, and common XML editing skills are sufficient to write one.
When specific transformations are needed, pieces of Java code can be easily plugged into the XML converters, ranging from a simple statement like substringAfter(",") to large blocks of code.
AnnoCultor is flexible from both sides: it allows plugging in small Java programs to parse input data custom or legacy formats, or to produce non-RDF output data, e.g. Solr documents.
AnnoCultor Converter was used to convert dozens datasets, ranging from simple, where all objects have the same structure, to complex, where input objects are different and interlinked, and need to be restructured to interlinked output objects.
AnnoCultor Time Ontology is a vocabulary of time periods: milleniums, centuries, half centuries, quarters, decades, and years. It also includes historical periods, like middle ages.
It can be used with AnnoCultor out-of-the-box to augment various representations of periods with exact dates to show them on a timeline.
AnnoCultor is an open-source project released under the Apache License that allows commercial reuse. It needs to be customised to each specific data source and target format, see our experiences on costs). For consultancy, please contact us via
