Semantic Background

KurrawongAI's Semantic Background is a set of reference semantic web information we use to align and augment project data.

The Semantic Background contains:

• Ontologies: 50 or so well-known W3C, OGC and other standards bodies' models
• Vocabularies: several hundred SKOS classification vocabularies we have worked on with many Australian and international organisations
• Validators: 100 or so SHACL Shapes Graphs that can be used to validate RDF data

Access

The Semantic Background's content is available in files in version control at:

• https://github.com/kurrawong/semantic-background

The content is also loaded into a publicly-accessible SPARQL Endpoint so it can be queried as a single Knowledge Graph.

Tools

The Semantic Background is used by our kgm and kurra to supply validators and labels, so commands like kurra shacl validate... use it directly.

Customised Access

If you'd like to access the Semantic Background in some other way, please let us know!