Sparnatural

Knowledge Graph Exploration for your end-users (and for you !)

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About Sparnatural

Sparnatural is a Javascript component that allows users to explore an RDF Knowledge Graph
by building SPARQL queries intuitively. It is configurable to adapt to your knowledge graph ontology.

How do you explore your knowledge graph ?

Maybe you have lists of entities. Or a search engine. Maybe you have facets. Maybe you even have data-visualisation. But can you explore your knowledge graph really as a graph ? This is what Sparnatural does.

Have you ever been frustrated by not being able to show - and to sell - all this nice structured data you have aggregated in your graph ? Sparnatural can demonstrate the value of heterogeneous data integration.

Are you looking for a solution that can bring your knowledge graph to your end-users ? Sparnatural is the right tool for this : it allows try-and-error interactions, it is visual, and it "gamifies" the knowledge graph experience.

End-User interface for your SPARQL endpoint

Adapt to your ontology

Sparnatural can be configured to adapt to your graph structure. You can hide some of the complexity of your graph, and simplify the navigation for your users. Configuration is made through an OWL ontology, fully documented.

Client-only (no additionnal server required)

Sparnatural is pure client javascript and can be plugged to any existing SPARQL endpoint, without additionnal server required.

Free and open-source

Sparnatural license is LGPL-3.0, which means you are free to integrate it in your website. Any modification you make inside the source code of Sparnatural needs to be distributed with the same license, or contributed to the original project.

Open-Source on Github

Sparnatural development is open and happens on the Github repository.

Fully customizable

Sparnatural offers different widgets for value selection : dropdown lists, ordered by occurrence count or alphabetically, autocomplete search fields, date pickers, tree widgets... this is all part of Sparnatural configuration.

Fully documentated

Sparnatural comes with complete documentation.

Try & download

Test a live demo to browse french-speaking DBPedia. Download from Github and start using !

Try the demo
Download from Github

Build your own SPARNATURAL environment

Build your own SPARNATURAL environment from your Spreadsheet in 2 or 3 steps.

1 - Create your Spreadsheet.

Build a new Google Spreadsheet using our template. You'll need to copy the template to your own Google Drive account by clicking the "Make a Copy" button.
You must add the ontology URL and configure your Sparnatural template. Click the link to go to the Sparnatural template.

Get the Spreadsheet Template

2 - Google Spreadsheet URL


Copy/paste Spreadsheet URL into the box below to generate your Sparnatural. This generates a Sparnatural template and data conversion URL.



3 - Share your Sparnatural


Copy and paste the URL in your browser bar to start SPARNATURAL

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Demos

 

DBPedia Museums

Museums, Artworks and Painters queried in French DBPedia.

ELI : Legilux (Luxembourg legislation)

Legislation, EU transpositions, citations, modifications, abrogation links, from the Legilux data platform. The model is similar to the ELI ontology.

FRBR/LRM : data.bnf.fr (French National Library)

Works, editions, authors, dates. The model is an LRM-like custom model.

This is now deployed in production at https://data.bnf.fr/sparnatural

OWL : ICD-10 Medical terminology

Diseases of the ICD-10 terminology published in the French Multi-Terminology Server in an OWL-based structure.

Vegetables Gardening

Plant characteristics from Elzeard knowledge base

Notarial archives kept by the Archives nationales of France, described using RiC-O

Descriptions of notarial archives, converted to a knowledge graph conforming to ICA Records in Contexts ontology, using mainly the RiCO converter software

CIDOC-CRM / Doremus : Music scores

Music scores from the Cité de la Musique / Philharmonie de Paris, described using CIDOC-CRM and its Doremus extension for music.

Référentiel d'interopérabilité du médicament

Pharmaceutical Products (PhPID 1,2,3,4), Actual Medicinal Products, Packaged Products, Substances. See all details about the dataset in the notice from the Serveur Multiterminologies, and you can also browse the full content.

Bibliography

Videos, presentations and events featuring Sparnatural

  • (fr) 2022-11-08 - Semweb.pro

    Presentation of Sparnatural in French at the semweb.pro 2022 (in French), complemented by two screencasts videos : the screencast of the BNF demonstrator, and the screencast of the AN demonstrator.

  • (en) 2022-06-17 - Return of experience on the project Sparnatural : a tool to explore cultural heritage knowledge graphs
    (fr) 17/06/2022 - Restitution du projet Sparnatural : un outil pour explorer des graphes de métadonnées culturelles

    (fr) Les Archives nationales, la BnF et le département du Numérique pour la transformation des politiques culturelles et l’administration des données [DEPNUM] du ministère de la Culture se sont associés en 2021 pour mener à bien un projet visant deux objectifs :

    • 1) développer une nouvelle version de Sparnatural, un éditeur open source de requêtes SPARQL (qui est le langage utilisé pour faire des recherches dans des graphes RDF) ;
    • 2) mettre en place deux démonstrateurs web pleinement opérationnels, pour permettre l’exploration et la recherche intuitives dans des graphes de métadonnées culturelles grâce à des interfaces construites à l’aide de cet outil.

    Le projet a été réalisé dans le cadre d’un marché public confié à la société Sparna. La BnF (les responsables de data.bnf.fr) a donc construit avec Sparna un démonstrateur web pour interroger l’ensemble de ses données RDF, soit tout le contenu de data.bnf.fr. Les Archives nationales (le Lab, en concertation avec le département du Minutier central des notaires des Paris) ont construit avec Sparna un démonstrateur web qui permet d’interroger les métadonnées décrivant un tiers des archives notariales conservées aux Archives nationales, qu’elles ont préalablement converties en RDF conformément à l’ontologie RiC-O.

    Les supports de la restitution sont disponibles en téléchargement :

    1. La présentation de la stratégie sémantique du ministère de la Culture
    2. La présentation du projet : enjeux, déroulement, principaux résultats
    3. La présentation de Sparnatural : fonctionnalités, configuration, utilisation, futur du projet (et sa variante d'origine en PPT)
    4. Le démonstrateur de la BnF : explorer les données de data.bnf.fr
    5. Le démonstrateur des Archives nationales : sémantiser et explorer les métadonnées des archives notariales
    6. La présentation du projet OpenArchaeo

    (30/09/2022) : L'enregistrement vidéo de l'évènement est maintenant disponible sur la chaine DailyMotion des Archives Nationales.

  • (fr) 2022-05-21 - Colloque Humanistica

    Presentation of Sparnatural at the Humanistica 2022 Colloque (in French)

  • (fr + en) 2022-03-01 - Europeana : Building the common European data space for cultural heritage together

    Video of presentation of Sparnatural (French, subtitles in English) (6:50)

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