Class: RDF::Vocabulary

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Extended by:
Enumerable
Defined in:
lib/rdf/vocab.rb

Overview

A Vocabulary represents an RDFS or OWL vocabulary.

Vocabularies:

The following vocabularies are pre-defined for your convenience:

  • RDF - Resource Description Framework (RDF)
  • CC - Creative Commons (CC)
  • CERT - W3 Authentication Certificate (CERT)
  • DC - Dublin Core (DC)
  • DC11 - Dublin Core 1.1 (DC11) deprecated
  • DOAP - Description of a Project (DOAP)
  • EXIF - Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF)
  • FOAF - Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
  • GEO - WGS84 Geo Positioning (GEO)
  • HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • OWL - Web Ontology Language (OWL)
  • RDFS - RDF Schema (RDFS)
  • RSA - W3 RSA Keys (RSA)
  • RSS - RDF Site Summary (RSS)
  • SIOC - Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC)
  • SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
  • WOT - Web of Trust (WOT)
  • XHTML - Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
  • XSD - XML Schema (XSD)

Examples:

Using pre-defined RDF vocabularies

include RDF

DC.title      #=> RDF::URI("http://purl.org/dc/terms/title")
FOAF.knows    #=> RDF::URI("http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows")
RDF.type      #=> RDF::URI("http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type")
RDFS.seeAlso  #=> RDF::URI("http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#seeAlso")
RSS.title     #=> RDF::URI("http://purl.org/rss/1.0/title")
OWL.sameAs    #=> RDF::URI("http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs")
XSD.dateTime  #=> RDF::URI("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime")

Using ad-hoc RDF vocabularies

foaf = RDF::Vocabulary.new("http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/")
foaf.knows    #=> RDF::URI("http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows")
foaf[:name]   #=> RDF::URI("http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name")
foaf['mbox']  #=> RDF::URI("http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/mbox")

See Also:

Direct Known Subclasses

CC, CERT, DC, DC11, DOAP, EXIF, FOAF, GEO, HTTP, OWL, RDFS, RSA, RSS, SIOC, SIOC::Types, SKOS, WOT, XHTML, XSD

Class Method Summary (collapse)

Instance Method Summary (collapse)

Constructor Details

- (Vocabulary) initialize(uri)

A new instance of Vocabulary

Parameters:



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 136

def initialize(uri)
  @uri = case uri
    when RDF::URI then uri.to_s
    else RDF::URI.parse(uri.to_s) ? uri.to_s : nil
  end
end

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method

- (Object) method_missing(property, *args, &block) (protected) 



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 201

def method_missing(property, *args, &block)
  if args.empty?
    self[property]
  else
    raise ArgumentError.new("wrong number of arguments (#{args.size} for 0)")
  end
end

Class Method Details

+ (RDF::URI) [](property)

Returns the URI for the term property in this vocabulary.

Parameters:

Returns:



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 84

def self.[](property)
  RDF::URI.intern([to_s, property.to_s].join(''))
end

+ (Symbol) __prefix__

Returns a suggested CURIE/QName prefix for this vocabulary class.

Returns:

  • (Symbol)

Since:

  • 0.3.0



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 127

def self.__prefix__
  self.__name__.split('::').last.downcase.to_sym
end

+ (Enumerator) each {|klass| ... }

Enumerates known RDF vocabulary classes.

Yields:

  • (klass)

Yield Parameters:

  • (Class) klass

Returns:



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 57

def self.each(&block)
  if self.equal?(Vocabulary)
    # This is needed since all vocabulary classes are defined using
    # Ruby's autoloading facility, meaning that `@@subclasses` will be
    # empty until each subclass has been touched or require'd.
    RDF::VOCABS.each { |v| require "rdf/vocab/#{v}" unless v == :rdf }
    @@subclasses.each(&block)
  else
    # TODO: should enumerate vocabulary-specific defined properties.
  end
end

+ (String) inspect

Returns a developer-friendly representation of this vocabulary class.

Returns:

  • (String) 


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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 108

def self.inspect
  if self == Vocabulary
    self.to_s
  else
    sprintf("%s(%s)", superclass.to_s, to_s)
  end
end

+ (Object) method_missing(property, *args, &block) (protected) 



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 193

def self.method_missing(property, *args, &block)
  if args.empty? && @@uris.has_key?(self)
    self[property]
  else
    super
  end
end

+ property(property)

This method returns an undefined value.

Defines a vocabulary term called property.

Parameters:

  • (Symbol) 


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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 74

def self.property(property)
  metaclass = class << self; self; end
  metaclass.send(:define_method, property) { self[property] } # class method
end

+ (String) to_s

Returns a string representation of this vocabulary class.

Returns:

  • (String) 


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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 100

def self.to_s
  @@uris.has_key?(self) ? @@uris[self].to_s : super
end

+ (RDF::URI) to_uri

Returns the base URI for this vocabulary class.

Returns:



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 92

def self.to_uri
  RDF::URI.intern(to_s)
end

Instance Method Details

- (URI) [](property)

Returns the URI for the term property in this vocabulary.

Parameters:

Returns:



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 148

def [](property)
  RDF::URI.intern([to_s, property.to_s].join(''))
end

- (String) inspect

Returns a developer-friendly representation of this vocabulary.

Returns:

  • (String) 


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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 172

def inspect
  sprintf("#<%s:%#0x(%s)>", self.class.name, __id__, to_s)
end

- (String) to_s

Returns a string representation of this vocabulary.

Returns:

  • (String) 


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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 164

def to_s
  @uri.to_s
end

- (URI) to_uri

Returns the base URI for this vocabulary.

Returns:



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# File 'lib/rdf/vocab.rb', line 156

def to_uri
  RDF::URI.intern(to_s)
end