quadipy 0.2.3
Package to package to transform structured data into RDF graph form
Requires Python: >=3.7,<4.0

# quadipy

![Logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vouch-insurance/quadipy/main/docs/img/logo.png)

`quadipy` is a python package to help transform structured data into RDF graph format.


We built `quadipy` to enable developers to build a config based ingestion pipeline to an RDF data store (think like FiveTran or Stitch but for RDF). `quadipy` won't explcitly handle connections to different systems but will allow you to configure the RDF data you want to create from any data source. `quadipy` leverages [RDFLib](https://rdflib.dev) to pythonically structure RDF data.

The goal with this project is to enable transforming any tabular data structure into graph based RDF data. We go into depth [here](https://medium.com/vouch-engineering/building-a-config-based-knowledge-graph-e073834f852a) on how we have used this config based system to build out our internal knowledge graph at Vouch! You can also check out our talk at KGC'22 on YouTube: [Modeling the startup ecosystem using a config based knowledge graph](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTZD5VTV4NI).

An example below shows what we mean by translating some tabular data into RDF graph data.

![Table to Graph](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vouch-insurance/quadipy/main/docs/img/quadipy_table.png)

For a step by step walk-through of how to do this with more examples, visit [tutorials](./tutorials/basic.md)

## Dev Setup

Run to set up your dev enviornment

```bash
make setup
```

## Usage

```python
from quadipy import GraphFormatConfig

config = GraphFormatConfig.parse_file("path/to/config.json")
quads = [config.quadify(record) for record in records] # records is an Iterator[Dict]
```

`quadipy` can work with a variety of different data sources as long as what is sent to the `quadify` method is a `Dict`

Each `Quad` created has a `.to_tuple()` method that converts it to a tuple to help facilitate working with [RDFLib](https://rdflib.dev/) Graphs

```python
from rdflib import URIRef, Graph
from quadipy import Quad

quad = Quad(subject=URIRef("Alice"), predicate=URIRef("knows"), obj=URIRef("Bob"), graph=None)
g = Graph()
g.add(quad.to_tuple())
```

### Setting up a GraphFormatConfig

The main value of `quadipy` comes from the `GraphFormatConfig`, which takes in a few parameters to configure the transformation of your data into RDF graph format. We provide configuration examples in the [examples](examples/) directory to help you get started. The full list of fields that can be configured is described below:

| field | required | description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `source_name` | Yes | A string that is used to describe the source (i.e. "wikipedia" for data from wikipedia) |
| `primary_key` | Yes | This is the key in your data that will be used for the subject of each value |
| `predicate_mapping` | Yes | A mapping where the keys are column names in your data source, and values a nested dict that required a `predicate_uri` key mapped to the RDF predicate in the target location and an optional `obj_datatype` key that maps to a custom datatype (currently we support [`literal`, `uriref`, or `date`]). If `obj_datatype` isn't specified, it will default to `literal` |
| `subject_namespace` | No | A string prepended to the quad's subject as a namespace, instead of just using the value of the `primary_key`. For example, for `primary_key=123` and `subject_namespace=wikipedia` the values generated would **NOT** be `URIRef("123")` but `URIRef("wikipedia/123")` |
| `graph_namespace` | No | Similar to `subject_namespace` in that this will assign each fact to a named graph with the `graph_namespace`. This is useful to store metadata about fact provenance in named graphs.
| `date_field` | No | The column in your dataset that the fact's "date" will be pulled from. When specified, the named graph field in each fact will be built from the date. For example if `date_field=created_at` and `created_at='2021-01-01` in the source data the graph field will be `URIRef("2021-01-01")`. This can can work in conjunction with `graph_namespace` |


### Validate Config files

To make sure the config files are valid, run the CLI by using the command

```bash
quadipy validate {path}
```
where `path` could be the directory for all the config files, e.g. `examples` or a single config file e.g. `examples/simple.json`

This script uses `pydantic` validator to make sure the config file is a valid JSON file, the required fields are presented and the `predicate_uri`s are valid `URI`s ("valid" defined by RDFLib [here](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/blob/main/rdflib/term.py#L90))