The FIAF Knowledge Graph is a FIAF initiated resource, using semantic web technologies to enable the holistic querying of data donated by members and affiliates. The knowledge graph is developed and maintained by the members of the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation's Linked Open Data Task Force.

The current members of this task force are:

 Paul Duchesne [National Film and Sound Archive of Australia]
 Adelheid Heftberger [Bundesarchiv]
 Stephen McConnachie [British Film Institute]
 Torbjørn Pedersen [Nasjonalbiblioteket]
 Leon van Wissen [Universiteit van Amsterdam]

Ladislav Cubr and Kristina Rose also contributed significantly to this project.

How to use this resource

There are four sections of this site:

 datasets describes contributed data, including number of cinematographic works and latest refresh dates.
 ontology describes the FIAFcore ontology, used as the shared framework for the knowledge graph.
 vocabularies details the vocabularies used by the FIAFcore ontology.
 access contains ways of interacting with the knowledge graph.

Technologies

The FIAF Knowledge Graph is built using established and emerging open-source technologies. Source data is supplied as XML, with the intention to support OAI-PMH automated capture in the future.

This XML is converted to RDF/XML via XSLT transforms to match ontology and vocabulary expectations. The RDF/XML is re-serialised as N-Triples and loaded into a QLever triplestore running on a FIAF managed server. This entire pipeline is orchestrated by Apache Airflow.

This site is built using Flask and RDFLib.

Design

The design of this site is an intentional homage to the visionary work of the Cinémathèque Québécoise in the area of Linked Open Data for film archives.

Contact

Any question or comments can be directed to the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission at cdc@fiafnet.org. Issues and discussion can be found on GitHub.

Licence

The FIAFcore ontology is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. Data sourced from the FIAF Knowledge Graph is licenced under CC-BY-NC-4.0.