Mapping suite package structure

This section describes the structure of a mapping suite package in GitHub. A package contains everything that is needed for the development and testing of a mapping suite that is applicable to a certain set of notices. After the package is finalised, it can be used by a process to apply it to a larger number of notices stored in a database, and transform these into RDF data.

A package is represented by a well-defined folder structure. This folder structure is duplicated for every mapping developed. The listing of these packages is by Form number.

The table below shows the structure of the F03 package, where /output refers to ted-rdf-mapping/mappings/package_F03/output, where package_F03 can be replaced by the identifier of the other packages mapped (F06,13, F21, F22, F23). The es16 package can be ignored.

Folder

Subfolder

Description

/output

/Noticeid/test_suite_report, where the NoticeID is the ID of the notice published on TED for example:

000163-2021/test_suite_report

Contains the semantic map of the concepts of the given notice (in this case, the F03 package).

/output cont.

rml_report/html

shacl_validations.html

shacl_validations.json

Each folder contains a subfolder for each of the rdf files produced from the sample data (see section on data sampling to understand the folder structure) which is named by the NoticeID of the sample concerned (eg 000163-2021)

Each subfolder contains:

The RDF output e.g., 000163-2021.ttl

Another subfolder /test_suite report which in turn contains different files for validating the transformation (see validating transformsations)

/test_data

/test_data/form_number_F03_2021

/test_data/form_number_F03_S01

/test_data/form_number_F03_S02

/test_data/form_number_F03_S03

/test_data/form_number_F03_S04

/test_data/form_number_F03_S05

Each folder contains the xml file as published on the TED website of the Notices to be transformed

Each xml notice is named by the NoticeID of the sample concerned (eg 000163-2021)

/transformation

/mappings

Contains the rml files used for the transformation. There is one rml file per section of each notice.

/transformation

/resources

Contains files concerning the code list mappings

/transformation

conceptual_mappings.xlsx

Contains the initial conceptual mapping which is used to write the rml.

/sparql/integration_tests

Mapping suite package description for Semantic Engineers

When the Semantic Engineers start working on a new mapping suite, they first need to set up a package folder structure similar to the one described below. One package per form number is the accepted way to organise packages.

Challenge: Are there better ways to deal with certain sections (sub-sections) that repeat across multiple forms? Consider Section I, for example, which in case of forms F03, F06, F25 contains “almost” the same information, therefore only one mapping should be written for it and RE-used in “final” form-mapping-packages. The problem is also discussed in a dedicated section below.

The structure of an example mapping package folder structure is presented below:

/package_Fxx
	/transformation
		conceptual_mappings.xlsx
		/mappings
			*.rml.ttl
		/resources
			*.json, *.xml, *.csv
	/test_data
		*.xml

/package_Fxx root folder of the mapping suite
/transformation/conceptual_mappings.xlsx manually created
/transformation/resources additional resources possibly needed by the transformation rules;
The content of this folder should be automatically generated by the mapping package processor, based on the "Resources" sheet of the conceptual_mappings.xlsx, from the "source of truth" ted-rdf-conversion-pipeline/ted-sws/resources.
/transformation/mappings/*.rml.ttl the relevant RML transformation rules, organised in module files, which are copied from the "source" mappings folder, according to the information specified in the "RML Modules" sheet of the conceptual_mappings.xlsx. IMPORTANT!!! In these rules the source XML is always referring to data/source.xml, which corresponds to the ../../data/source.xml file that will be copied (and renamed) from the test_data folder at the time of the execution of the mapping.
/test_data manually and carefully selected test data possibly grouped in suborders, e.g. /test_data/batch-D1/*.xml
technical_mappings.yarrrml.yaml (optional) manually created, and used in earlier days of the mapping development, but currently not used

Mapping suite package description for the Software Engineers

A package provided by semantic engineers (SE) is enriched with additional artefacts that are generated automatically using the package expanding tools which take as input the artefacts provided by the SE. Here are some examples of additional artefacts generated:

Metadata describing the parameters for selecting the notices that the mappings can be applied to, various version information, etc.
SPARQL queries that can be used to validate and/or test the generated outputs
SHACL shapes that can be used to validate and the structure of the generated outputs
New ones may be added at the time of writing this document

After the package processing/expansion, the structure of the example mapping package presented in the previous subsection would look like this:

/package_Fxx
	metadata.json
	/transformation
		conceptual_mappings.xlsx
		/mappings
			*.rml.ttl
		/resources
			*.json, *.xml, *.csv
	/data
		source.xml
	/output
		*.rdf
	/validation
		/sparql
			/cm_assertions
				*.rq
		/shacl # this is a constant, when a SHACL is known (currently unknown)
			*.shacl.ttl # data shape file(s)
	/test_data # manually and carefully selected test data
		*.xml

metadata.json automatically generated from Metadata sheet of conceptual_mapping.xlsx
/data # this is a placeholder created at runtime to process the inputs. It serves only when the mapping suite is being tested, or executed by some script.
source.xml this file is generated during runtime by copying a given test data file
/output this is a placeholder created at runtime to store outputs. It serves only when the mapping suite is being tested, or executed by some script.
/validation/sparql/cm_assertions SPARQL queries automatically generated from the conceptual mapping

Mapping suite package description for the Semantic Engineers after execution

After the execution of a mapping, the mapping package will be further enriched, and will contain additional files, as a result of running the mapping suite on the included test data.

/package_Fxx
	metadata.json
	/transformation
		conceptual_mappings.xlsx
		/mappings
			*.rml.ttl
		/resources
			*.json, *.xml, *.csv
	/data
		source.xml
	/output
		/<notice_file1>
			<notice_file1>.ttl
			/test_suite_report
				*.ttl, *.html, *.json # e.g. sparql_cm_assertions.html, shacl_epo.html, xml_coverage.html
		/<notice_file2>
			...
		/<notice_file3>
			...
	/validation
		/sparql
			/cm_assertions
				*.rq
		/shacl
			/epo
				ePO_shacl_shapes.rdf
			shacl_result_query.rq
	/test_data
		<notice_file1>.xml
		<notice_file2>.xml
		<notice_file3>.xml
		*.xml

/output/<notice_file1> for each example file a folder is created that contains all the generated artefacts for that sample file
/output/test_suite_report validation reports summarising all individual reports
/output/<notice_file1>/<notice_file1>.ttl the output of the transformation

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