SPARQL query service/queries/examples/en

Basic functions

select - where: Select all items where the author is Tiphaigne de la Roche

SELECT all the items and their labels WHERE the author is Tiphaigne de la Roche

#title:novels by Tiphaigne de la Roche, with labels
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE 
{
  ?item mmdt:P5 mmd:Q940.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}

novels by Tiphaigne de la Roche, with labels

Bind: Publication years of the novels

Retrieve the publication years of the novels.

#title:Publication years of the novels
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?work ?workLabel ?year  #display work as Link, the Label and the year
WHERE
{
   ?work mmdt:P9 ?pubyear . # P9 : date of publication
   ?work rdfs:label ?workLabel . # get the label of your item (work)
   FILTER(lang(?workLabel) = "fr") . # filter the language, otherwise you will get triple the amount of results
   SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE], fr". }
   BIND(YEAR(?pubyear) as ?year). # extract the year of the datetime-formatted ?pubyear and bind it to ?year
}

ORDER BY ?year # sort the results by ascending (default) year

Publication years of the novels

Limit: Authors and their count of novels limited to top 10

Authors and novels limited to top 10 This query takes all items whose value of BGRF_tone_intention (P31) is MYLNE, Vivienne Gower (Q5) and count the total number of items using COUNT function.

#title:Authors and their count of novels limited to top 10
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?authorName (count (?authorName) as ?count)
WHERE {
   ?work mmdt:P5 ?author . # work has author.
   ?author rdfs:label ?authorName . # get author label (not only Link to author)
   FILTER(LANG(?authorName) = "en") . # other options: "fr", "de". Filter is needed as there is more than one label (language dependent)
}

group by ?authorName
order by desc (?count)
limit 10

Authors and their count of novels limited to top 10

Filter: Filter for all authors that published a novel in 1800

Filter for all authors that published a novel in 1800

#title:authors that published a novel in 1800
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT DISTINCT ?authorName (YEAR(?pubdate) as ?year)
WHERE {
  ?work mmdt:P5 ?author; mmdt:P9 ?pubdate. # work has author and a publication date
  ?author rdfs:label ?authorName . # get author label (not only Link to author)
  FILTER(LANG(?authorName) = "en"). # other options: "fr", "de". Filter is needed as there is more than one label (language dependent)
  FILTER(YEAR(?pubdate) = 1800). # filter for the publication date of interest
}

authors that published a novel in 1800

Filter: Get all authors whose name contains “beau”

Get all authors whose name contains “beau”

title:Authors whose name contains "beau"

PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

#title:Authors  whose name contains "beau"
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?authorName ?author
WHERE {
  ?author mmdt:P11 mmd:Q11 . # item has property "occupation"(P11) namely "author"(Q11).
  ?author rdfs:label ?authorName . # get author label (not only URL to author)
  FILTER(LANG(?authorName) = "fr") .
  FILTER(CONTAINS(LCASE(?authorName), "beau")).
}

Authors whose name contains "beau"

Optional: Novels by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’ARNAUD and their tonality if available

Get all novels written by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’ARNAUD and their tonality

#title:Novels by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’ARNAUD
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?work ?workLabel ?tonality 
WHERE
{
  ?work mmdt:P5 mmd:Q68 # work has author François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’ARNAUD  
  OPTIONAL { ?work mmdt:P31 ?tonality. }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
}

Novels by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’ARNAUD

Get all Items that have Matches to wikidata

Example on how to use the "Close Match" or "Exact Match" properties to query the MiMoText database.

#title:Items with a close match to other knowledge graphs
#defaultView:Dimensions
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT
   ?item ?itemLabel ?value 
WHERE
{
  ?item mmdt:P16 ?value #items with property "close match“, substitute mmdt:P13 for exact match, other relational properties see Wiki
  
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}

Items with a close match to other knowledge graphs

List all Properties

This shows how to list all properties defined in the database.

#title:List of all properties used in the MiMoText graph
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?property ?propertyLabel ?prop
WHERE {
    ?property a wikibase:Property . 
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
    BIND(STRAFTER(STR(?property), "entity/") as ?prop)
}
ORDER BY ASC(xsd:integer(STRAFTER(STR(?property), 'P')))

List of all properties used in the MiMoText graph

Basic Data Extraction: Overview over some data and handling of missing data statements

This query shows hoe to extract data from our database by querying different properties of authors. It is also an example on how to handle missing values (see comments).

#title: Some data about the MiMoTextBase such as Authors, Novels, publication years, tone etc.

# Prefix declarations for shortening URIs
prefix mmd: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

# Selecting distinct data fields for analysis
SELECT DISTINCT ?bgrf ?item ?authorlabel ?itemLabel ?year ?narrpers ?tonality ?pages ?normalized WHERE {
  ?item mmdt:P5 ?author;   # Who is the author?
        mmdt:P4 ?title;    # What is the title?
        mmdt:P22 ?bgrf;    # What is the identifier in the bibliographic metadata?
        mmdt:P9 ?date;     # What is the publication date?

  # Optional data fields for more details (some novels may not have these)
  OPTIONAL { ?item mmdt:P27 ?narrpers. } # Narrator's perspective
  OPTIONAL { ?item mmdt:P31 ?tonality. }  # Tone or writing style
  OPTIONAL { ?item mmdt:P25 ?pages.   }   # Number of pages

  # Extracting the year from the publication date
  BIND(YEAR(?date) as ?year).

  # Handling cases where narrpers is not available
  BIND(if(bound(?narrpers), ?narrpers, "unbekannt") as ?normalized)

  # Fetching the author's label in English
  ?author rdfs:label ?authorlabel.
  FILTER(LANG(?authorlabel) = "en")

  # Wikibase service for label translation
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE], fr". }
} ORDER BY ?year

Some data about the MiMoTextBase such as Authors, Novels, publication years, tone etc.

Authors

Timeline: authors and their novels on a timeline by publication date

This query finds and displays the first 100 authors found in the database in a timeline.

#title:Authors on a timeline, limited to 100 results
#defaultView:Timeline{"hide":["?date"]}
#line above necessary to display results in a time line! 
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>
Select ?authorlabel ?titel (YEAR(?date) as ?year) ?date 
where{
 ?item mmdt:P5 ?author;
       mmdt:P9 ?date;
       mmdt:P4 ?titel .
 ?author rdfs:label ?authorlabel .
 FILTER(lang(?authorlabel) = "fr") .
 SERVICE wikibase:label {bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "{AUTO_LANGUAGE}".}
}LIMIT 100

Authors on a timeline, limited to 100 results

Authors and Awards

Display of moments in time when authors in the database received awards in the form of a timeline.

#title:Points in time when authors of the MiMoTextBase received an award
#defaultView:Timeline
PREFIX ps: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/statement/>
PREFIX pq: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/qualifier/>
PREFIX p: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/>

# visualize the point in time when authors got an award
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> #wikidata wd
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> #wikidata wdt
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

SELECT ?item ?award ?itemLabel ?awardLabel ?time
WHERE {
  
  ?item mmdt:P11 mmd:Q11.
  ?item mmdt:P13 ?WikiLink.
 
  #Federated Query -> Wikidata
  SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
    ?WikiLink p:P166 ?awardProperty. # get the property 
    ?awardProperty ps:P166 ?award. # get the statement of the propery
    ?award rdfs:label ?awardLabel. # get the Label
    FILTER(LANG(?awardLabel) ="en").
    
    OPTIONAL{?awardProperty pq:P585 ?time.} # get the qualifiert point in time when available
  }           
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
}

Points in time when authors of the MiMoTextBase received an award

Authors and Organizations

This shows a graph display of authors that are members of an organization. There are also examples of federated sub-queries in this example.

#defaultView:Graph
#title:Authors that are members of an organisation
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> #wikidata wd
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> #wikidata wdt
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

SELECT ?item ?memberOf ?itemLabel  ?memberOfLabel
WHERE {
  #Federated Query -> Wikidata
   ?item mmdt:P11 mmd:Q11.
  ?item mmdt:P13 ?WikiLink.
  
  #Federated Queries, pulling information from wikidata
  SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
    ?WikiLink wdt:P463 ?memberOf.
    ?memberOf rdfs:label ?memberOfLabel.
    FILTER(LANG(?memberOfLabel)="en").
  }           
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
}

Authors that are members of an organisation

Novels

Novels per Author

This query shows how to extract authors who have written more than 10 novels. See comments on how to modify this query to extract every author and how many novels they have written in general.

#title:Authors with more than 10 novels
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?authorName (count (?authorName) as ?count)
WHERE {
   ?work mmdt:P5 ?author . # work has author.
   ?author rdfs:label ?authorName . # get author label (not only URL to author)
   FILTER(LANG(?authorName) = "en") # other options: "fr", "de". Filter is needed as there is more than one label (language dependent)
} 

group by ?authorName
having (count(?authorName) > 10) #can be left out to get count of written novels per author a limit can be added eg limit 20
order by desc (?count)

Authors with more than 10 novels

Publication Years

This query shows how to query the publication year of the novels in the database. Keep in mind, that this (and other) information is presented in three different languages ("en", "de", "fr") in the database, it is very important to filter the results using one of them.

#title:Publication years of the novels
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?work ?workLabel ?year  #display work as Link, the Label and the year
WHERE
{
   ?work mmdt:P9 ?pubyear . # P9 : date of publication
   ?work rdfs:label ?workLabel . # get the label of your item (work)
   FILTER(lang(?workLabel) = "fr") . # filter the language, otherwise you will get triple the amount of results
   SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE], fr". }
   BIND(YEAR(?pubyear) as ?year). # extract the year of the datetime-formatted ?pubyear and bind it to ?year
}

ORDER BY ?year # sort the results by ascending (default) year

Publication years of the novels

Narrative Perspective

This query is for displaying the different narrative perspectives present in the database in a Bar Chart. See comments for querying the narrative perspective of each individual novel.

#title:Narrative perspectives of the novels
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>
prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
SELECT (count(?narrativePerspectiveLabel) as ?count) ?narrativePerspectiveLabel 
WHERE
{
  ?work mmdt:P33 ?narrativePerspective. # work (novel) has property P33 (narrative perspective)
  ?narrativePerspective rdfs:label ?narrativePerspectiveLabel. # using of rdfs:label to display labels
  
  FILTER(lang(?narrativePerspectiveLabel) = "en") # filter is neccessary to display only one occurence. Other possibilites would be "en" or "de".
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE], en". }
 
}

group by ?narrativePerspectiveLabel
#defaultView:BarChart

#if narrative perspective of each novel is of interest, delete the last two lines and add - order by asc(?workLabel) -

Narrative perspectives of the novels

Distribution Formats

This shows how to display the different distribution formats and how many novels have this property in a Bar Chart.

#title:Distribution formats of publications
#defaultView:BarChart
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
Select  (str(SAMPLE(year(?date))) as ?year) (count(?format) as ?count) ?format 
   WHERE{
   ?item mmdt:P26 ?format.
   ?item mmdt:P9 ?date .
  FILTER(lang(?format) = "fr")
# FILTER(lcase(?format) = "12-in"@fr)
      Filter (regex(lcase(?format), "in-\\d+[\\s\\S]"))
   BIND(str(year(?date)) as ?year)
   SERVICE wikibase:label {bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "{AUTO_LANGUAGE}","fr" .}
  }

GROUP BY ?format ?year ?count
#having (?count> 2)

Distribution formats of publications

Narrative Locations

This queries the different narrative locations that are present in the database.

#title:Distinct narrative locations in the corpus
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>
SELECT  DISTINCT ?locLabel ?loc # use distinct to get all results only one time
 WHERE 
 {
    ?work mmdt:P32 ?loc . 
    ?loc rdfs:label ?locLabel .
   FILTER (LANG(?locLabel) = "en").
 }
 ORDER BY ?locLabel

Distinct narrative locations in the corpus

Tone

This shows the tone of each novel present in the database in a Tree Map.

#title:Tone of the novels
#defaultView:TreeMap
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT
  ?tonality ?itemLabel
WHERE
{
  ?item mmdt:P31 ?tonality. #tonality        
  ?item mmdt:P9 ?date. 
   SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],fr". }
}

Tone of the novels

First Publication

This shows how to extract the first publication dates of all French novels in the database and group the results per year.

#title:First publication dates of all French novels 1751-1800
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT (str(SAMPLE(year(?date))) as ?year) (COUNT(*) AS ?count)
WHERE {
   ?item mmdt:P9 ?date .
}
GROUP BY ?date
ORDER BY DESC(?date)

First publication dates of all French novels 1751-1800

Novel Settings

This shows how to get the settings of a specific type of novel (here: epistolary).

#title:Settings of epistolary novels
prefix md:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?narr_loc_name (count(*) as ?count) where {
  ?item mmdt:P33 ?narrative_form ;
        mmdt:P32 ?narrative_location .
  ?narrative_form rdfs:label ?narr_form_name .
  ?narrative_location rdfs:label ?narr_loc_name .
 
  filter(lang(?narr_form_name) = "en")
  filter(lang(?narr_loc_name) = "en")
  filter(contains(lcase(?narr_form_name), "epistolary")) #to get settings of heterodiegetic novels, you can also try "heterodiegetic" instead of "epistolary" in this line 
}

group by ?narr_loc_name
order by desc(?count)

#defaultView:BubbleChart

Settings of epistolary novels

Token Count and Narrative Form

This shows the dimension (or relation) between token count and narrative form.

#title:Dimension between token count and narrative form
#defaultView:Dimensions
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?tokencount ?formLabel WHERE {
  ?novel mmdt:P40 ?tokencount.
  ?novel mmdt:P33 ?form.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}

Dimension between token count and narrative form

Themes

List all Themes

This query shows how to get a list of all themes (or narrative locations) with their corresponding QID and occurence.

#title:List of all themes with corresponding Q-identifier & occurrence 
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>
SELECT  ?theme
        (sample(?themeLabel) as ?name)
        (count(*) as ?count) 
WHERE {
  ?item mmdt:P36 ?theme. #change mmdt:P32 to get list of all narrative locations
  #variable names can be changed for clarification ?theme -> ?narrativeLocation etc.
  ?theme rdfs:label ?themeLabel .
  FILTER (LANG(?themeLabel) = "en").
}
GROUP BY ?theme
ORDER BY DESC(?count)

LIMIT 35

List of all themes with corresponding Q-identifier & occurrence

Thematic Concepts

View the different thematic concepts present in the database as a Bubble Chart.

#title:Thematic concepts
#defaultView:BubbleChart
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?topLabel (count(*) as ?count)
WHERE {
 ?item mmdt:P36 ?top .
 ?top rdfs:label ?topLabel .
 filter(lang(?topLabel) = "en")
}
GROUP BY ?topLabel
ORDER BY desc(?count)

Thematic concepts

Query Specific Theme

View all authors who wrote novels about a specified theme in a Bubble Chart.

#title:Authors with novels about sentimentalism
#defaultView:BubbleChart
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?name (COUNT(*) as ?count) WHERE {
  ?item mmdt:P36 ?theme ;
        mmdt:P5 ?author .
  ?theme rdfs:label ?about .
  ?author rdfs:label ?name . 
  FILTER(lang(?about) = "en")
  FILTER(lang(?name) = "en")
  FILTER(contains(lcase(?about), "sentimentalism")) #can be changed to other themes contained in database
}
GROUP BY ?name
ORDER BY DESC (?count)

Authors with novels about sentimentalism

Query Specific Theme #2

View all publication places of novels about a specified theme in a World Map.

#title:Publication places of novels about "travel"
#defaultView:Map{"hide": ["?nar_loc", "?topic"], "layer": "?themeLabel"}
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> #wikidata wd
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> #wikidata wdt

SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?placeOfPub ?placeOfPubLabel ?wikidataEntityLink ?coordinateLocation ?theme ?themeLabel WHERE {
  ?item mmdt:P36 mmd:Q3126.  # about travel
  ?item mmdt:P36 ?theme.    # work with 0 or more topics
  ?item mmdt:P10 ?placeOfPub.  # work has place publication
  ?placeOfPub mmdt:P13 ?WikiLink.  # place of publication ist mit Wikidata-Link verknüpft
  #Federated Query -> Wikidata
  SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
    ?WikiLink wdt:P625 ?coordinateLocation .
  }
  SERVICE wikibase:label {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" .
  }
}

Publication places of novels about "travel"

Display Themes

This shows how to view the themes of the novels in the database in a Bar Chart. See comments on how to view all of the narrative forms present per novel.

#title:Themes of French novels 1751-1800
#defaultView:BarChart
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

Select  (str(SAMPLE(year(?date))) as ?year) (count(?themelabel) as ?count) ?themelabel 
   WHERE{
   ?item mmdt:P36 ?theme. #replace with mmdt:P33 to get narrative forms of these novels
   #variable names can be adjusted too (like ?formlabel instead of ?themelabel for clarity)
   ?theme rdfs:label ?themelabel .
   ?item mmdt:P9 ?date .
   FILTER(lang(?themelabel) = "fr")
   BIND(str(year(?date)) as ?year)
   SERVICE wikibase:label {bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "{AUTO_LANGUAGE}","fr" .}
  }

GROUP BY ?themelabel ?year ?count
#having (?count> 1)

Themes of French novels 1751-1800

All Themes

This shows how to display all themes present in the database.

#title:All themes in the MiMoText graph
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
Select ?themeLabel
   WHERE{
   ?item mmdt:P36 ?theme.
   ?theme rdfs:label ?themeLabel .
   FILTER(lang(?themeLabel) = "en")
   BIND(str(year(?date)) as ?year)
   SERVICE wikibase:label {bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en".}
  }

GROUP BY ?themeLabel

All themes in the MiMoText graph

Query Specific Theme given Area

This shows how to extract themes from the database given a specific narrative location (here: rural area).

#title:Themes of novels set in "rural areas"
#defaultView:TreeMap
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

SELECT ?theme ?themeLabel ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item mmdt:P36 ?theme .
  ?item mmdt:P32 mmd:Q3243 # items with narrative location (P32): rural area
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}

Themes of novels set in "rural areas"

Thematic Concepts

This shows how to query the thematic concepts given all novels and view them in a Bubble Chart.

#title:Thematic concepts per novel
#defaultView:BubbleChart
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?topicLabel (COUNT(?topicLabel) as ?count)
WHERE {
 ?item mmdt:P2 mmd:Q2. # get all instances of literary work
 ?item mmdt:P36 ?topic . # get the thematic concepts of the items
 ?topic rdfs:label ?topicLabel .
 FILTER(LANG(?topicLabel) = "en") . 
}
GROUP BY ?topicLabel
ORDER BY desc(?count)

Thematic concepts per novel

Spaces

Most Common Publication Places

#title:Most common publication places
#defaultView:Map{"hide": ["?pub_loc"]}
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> #wikidata wd
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> #wikidata wdt

SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?pub_loc ?pub_locLabel ?wikidataEntityLink ?coordinateLocation ?theme ?themeLabel WHERE {
  ?item mmdt:P10 ?pub_loc.
  ?pub_loc mmdt:P13 ?WikiLink.
  #Federated Query -> Wikidata
  SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
    ?WikiLink wdt:P625 ?coordinateLocation
  }      
  SERVICE wikibase:label {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" .
  }

Most common publication places

Federated queries

Narrative Places, their Wikidata matches and geographic coordinates

This query shows how to display the narrative (or publication) locations using the world map by extracting coordinate locations from Wikidata. Every time information from Wikidata is required, a federated query is necessary. Optionally, an added layer of token count can be added.

#title:Narrative places (using Wikidata coordinate locations)
#defaultView:Map{"hide": ["?nar_loc"], "markercluster":"true"}
#remove {"hide": ["?nar_loc"], "markercluster":"true"} if publication locations are queried
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> #wikidata wd
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> #wikidata wdt
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel ?nar_loc ?nar_locLabel ?WikiDataEntity ?coordinateLocation
WHERE { ?item mmdt:P32 ?nar_loc. # change mmdt:P10 if publication locations are of interest
  ?nar_loc mmdt:P13 ?WikiDataEntity.

     
  #add an additional layer of token count
  #?item mmdt:P40 ?tokencount.
  #BIND(
  #IF(?tokencount <= 50000, "short",
     	#IF(?tokencount <= 150000, "medium",
           	#"long"))
  	  #AS ?layer).
 

  #Federated Query -> Wikidata
  SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
    ?WikiDataEntity wdt:P625 ?coordinateLocation
  }           
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
}

Narrative places (using Wikidata coordinate locations)

Exact Wikidata Matches (Authors)

This query shows pictures of authors that are present in the MiMoText base and in Wikidata.

#title:Authors in the MiMoTextBase with exact Wikidata match and Wikidata image
#defaultView:ImageGrid
PREFIX mmd: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> 
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> 

SELECT ?author ?authorLabel ?img
WHERE {
  ?author mmdt:P11 mmd:Q11;
          mmdt:P13 ?wikiLink.
  SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql>{
  ?wikiLink wdt:P18 ?img.
  } 
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}

Authors in the MiMoTextBase with exact Wikidata match and Wikidata image

Change over time

Display Change over Time

This query will show changes in publication places in a Bar Chart.

#title:Change of publication places over time
#defaultView:BarChart
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?year ?placelabel (COUNT(*) as ?countyearplace) WHERE {
  #Identify items with a specified place and retrieve the place label (P10 = place of publication)
  ?item mmdt:P10 ?place.
  ?place rdfs:label ?placelabel .
  
  #Extract their publication date (P9)
  ?item mmdt:P9 ?date .
  FILTER(lang(?placelabel) = "fr")
  BIND(str(year(?date)) as ?year)
  SERVICE wikibase:label {bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "{AUTO_LANGUAGE}","fr" .}
}

GROUP BY ?year ?placelabel #group results by year and place of publication
HAVING (?countyearplace > 1) #only include instance in which the count is greater than 1

Change of publication places over time

Changes in Theme

This query will display the changes in a specific theme (here: travel) over time in a Bar Chart.

#title:Evolution of "travel" theme in French novels 1751-1800
#defaultView:BarChart
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/> 
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
SELECT ?date ?countTravel ?countAll (?countTravel / ?countAll AS ?rel)
WHERE {
 {  
   # Subquery to count novels with the "travel" theme
    SELECT ?date (count(*) AS ?countTravel)
    WHERE {
      ?item mmdt:P9 ?date;
            mmdt:P36 ?topic .
      ?topic rdfs:label ?topicLabel .
      # Filtering for English labels with "travel"
      FILTER(lang(?topicLabel) = "en")
      FILTER(lcase(?topicLabel) = "travel"@en)
    }
    GROUP BY ?date
  }
  {
    # Subquery to count all novels
   SELECT ?date (count(*) AS ?countAll)
   WHERE {
     ?item mmdt:P9 ?date;
         mmdt:P36 ?topic . 
     ?topic rdfs:label ?topicLabel .
     filter(lang(?topicLabel) = "en")
   }
   GROUP BY ?date
 }
}

Evolution of "travel" theme in French novels 1751-1800

Comparing sources

Comparing Topics

#Title:Statements on consistent topics in novels from both sources (TM & bibl. metadata)
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
prefix mmps:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/statement/>
prefix mmpr: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/reference/>
PREFIX mmp: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/>
SELECT   ?item ?itemLabel ?value ?valueLabel
WHERE
{   
    ?item mmp:P36 ?statement.
    ?statement mmps:P36 ?value .
    ?statement prov:wasDerivedFrom ?refnode. #statement has a reference
    ?refnode mmpr:P18 mmd:Q21.  #reference statement uses 'P18'='stated in' topic modeling
  
    ?statement prov:wasDerivedFrom ?refnodeB.
    ?refnodeB mmpr:P18 mmd:Q1 .#reference statement uses 'P18'='stated in' bibliographie
    
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}

¡Pruébalo! (es) / Próbáld ki! (hu) / ¡Pruébalo! (ast) / Prova-ho! (ca) / Es kann versucht werden! (de-ch) / Ceisio! (cy) / Try it! (en-gb) / Փորձի՛ր (hy) / 试一试！ (zh) / Prøv det! (da) / Deneyin! (tr) / 試す! (ja) / Testa! (sv) / Versuchen Sie es! (de-formal) / 試一試！ (zh-hant) / Versuche es! (de) / Kokeile! (fi) / Δοκιμάστε το! (el) / Provu ĝin! (eo) / Zkuste to! (cs) / Isprobajte! (bs) / Provalo! (it) / এটি চেষ্টা করে দেখুন! (bn) / Essayez ! (fr) / پرشن کرو (pnb) / Паспрабуйце! (be-tarask) / de-at (1) / Виконати! (uk) / נסו את זה! (he) / SPARQL 쿼리 실행하기 (ko) / Biceribîne! (ku) / Probeer! (nl) / Experimenta! (pt) / ਪ੍ਰਸ਼ਨ ਕਰੋ (pa) / Izmēģini! (lv) / Prøv sjølv (nn) / Испробајте! (sr) / Cobalah! (id) / Пробајте! (mk) / Experimente! (pt-br) / جالنکن! (ms-arab) / ทดลองใช้ (th) / Wypróbuj! (pl) / Prøv selv! (nb) / 試試看！ (zh-tw) / Jalankan! (ms) / Încercați! (ro) / Выполнить запрос (ru) / Provoje (sq) / Run it! (en) / تجربة! (ar) / 试一试！ (zh-hans) / Оскалтэ! (udm)

Visualizations

Bubble Chart: topics exctracted via Topic Modelling

Here, you can display the different topics present in the database in a Bubble Chart.

#title:Topics referenced by topic modeling (Q21)
#do not delete following line. it looks like a comment but is important for the presentation of the results as a Bubble Chart.
#defaultView:BubbleChart
prefix mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
prefix mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 
prefix mmps:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/statement/>
prefix mmpr:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/reference/>
SELECT ?themeLabel
        (count(*) as ?count) 
WHERE
{
    ?statement mmps:P36 ?theme. #statement has property 'about'
    ?statement prov:wasDerivedFrom ?refnode. #statement has a reference
    ?refnode   mmpr:P18 mmd:Q21. #reference statement uses 'P18'=stated in; stated in: Q21. use mmd:Q1 to see topics referenced by Bibliographie du genre romanesque français
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
GROUP BY ?themeLabel
ORDER BY ?name

Topics referenced by topic modeling (Q21)

Line Chart: Average Token Count

This example shows hoe you can display information in different Charts. Here, you can see the average token count for each possible narrative form/year.

#title:average token count for each possible narrative form per year
#defaultView:LineChart
#replace LineChart with BarChart or ScatterChart if you prefer that presentation of your data
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

SELECT ?year (avg(?tokencount) as ?avgtokencount) ?narrForm ?narrFormLabel
  WHERE{
    ?item mmdt:P9 ?publicationdate. # get publication date
    ?item mmdt:P40 ?tokencount. # get tokencount
    BIND(str(YEAR(?publicationdate)) as ?year). # extract year from pubdate
    ?item mmdt:P33 ?narrForm. # get narrative form
    SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
  }
GROUP BY ?narrForm ?year ?narrFormLabel
ORDER BY ?year

average token count for each possible narrative form per year

Animated Bar Chart: Count of different Tone per Intention over the years

This is a way to dynamically display information that is dependent on more than one variable. Here, the count of different tones per intention is shown. The Bar Chart is animated and changes as the years go on.

#title:Count of different tones per intention and year (animated)
#defaultView:BarChart
PREFIX mmd: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt: <http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>
SELECT ?intentionLabel (COUNT(?tone) AS ?toneCount) ?toneLabel ?year
WHERE{
  ?item mmdt:P2 mmd:Q2; # item is instance of literary work
        mmdt:P9 ?pubdate; # get the publication date
        mmdt:P38 ?tone; # get tone of work-item
        mmdt:P39 ?intention. # get intention of work-item
  ?tone rdfs:label ?toneLabel. # get the tone label
  ?intention rdfs:label ?intentionLabel. # get the intention label
  
  FILTER(LANG(?toneLabel) = "en"). # filter for language
  FILTER(LANG(?intentionLabel)="en"). # filter for language
  BIND(str(YEAR(?pubdate)) as ?year). # filter year of the publication date
}
GROUP BY ?year ?toneLabel ?intentionLabel

Count of different tones per intention and year (animated)

Publication Places

This example shows how to display information in an Area Chart. Here, the publication places with at least 5 instances per year are queried.

#title:Publication places that occur at least 5 times per year
#defaultView:AreaChart
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?date (count(?pubPlace) as ?count) ?pubPlaceLabel
WHERE{
  ?item mmdt:P2 mmd:Q2;
        mmdt:P9 ?date;
        mmdt:P10 ?pubPlace.
  ?pubPlace rdfs:label ?pubPlaceLabel.
  FILTER(LANG(?pubPlaceLabel) = "en").
}

GROUP BY ?date ?pubPlaceLabel
HAVING (count(?pubPlaceLabel) > 4)

Publication places that occur at least 5 times per year

Thematic Concepts, Novels and Authors

Here is an example on how to display information in an expandable list. The result will be a list of authors with the second level being their works, and the third being the topic labels of these works.

#title:Authors, their novels and thematic concepts
#defaultView:Tree
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/>

SELECT ?author ?authorLabel
?item ?itemLabel 
?topic ?topicLabel

WHERE{
  ?item mmdt:P2 mmd:Q2;  # item is instance of literary work
        mmdt:P36 ?topic; # item has a thematic concept
        mmdt:P33 ?narrForm; # item has a narrative form
        mmdt:P5 ?author.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }

}ORDER BY ?authorLabel

Authors, their novels and thematic concepts

Authors and Organizations (at least 2 Members)

This is how to display information in an intricate Graph. Here, the authors in the MiMoText database are queried and are connected to the societies they were members. To identify their membership, federated queries are used to extract that information from Wikidata.

#defaultView:Graph
#title:MiMoText authors that are members of an organisation having at least two members
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> #wikidata wd
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> #wikidata wdt
PREFIX mmd:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/entity/>
PREFIX mmdt:<http://data.mimotext.uni-trier.de/prop/direct/> 

SELECT ?author ?authorLabel ?img ?memberOf ?memberOfLabel 
WHERE {
  ?author mmdt:P11 mmd:Q11. 
  ?author mmdt:P13 ?WikiLink. #important for federated query!
  
  #federated query: extracts the organization the author is a member of and optionally their picture
  SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
    ?WikiLink wdt:P463 ?memberOf.
    ?memberOf rdfs:label ?memberOfLabel.
    OPTIONAL{?WikiLink wdt:P18 ?img}.
    FILTER(LANG(?memberOfLabel)="en").
  }   
        
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
  {
    #Count the number of authors for each organization and include only those with more than 1 author
    SELECT ?memberOf (COUNT(?author) as ?countmember) 
    WHERE {
      ?author mmdt:P11 mmd:Q11.
      ?author mmdt:P13 ?WikiLink.
      SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
        ?WikiLink wdt:P463 ?memberOf.
      }           
    }
  GROUP BY ?memberOf
  HAVING (?countmember > 1)
  }
}

MiMoText authors that are members of an organisation having at least two members

SPARQL query service/queries/examples/en

Basic functions

select - where: Select all items where the author is Tiphaigne de la Roche

Bind: Publication years of the novels

Limit: Authors and their count of novels limited to top 10

Filter: Filter for all authors that published a novel in 1800

Filter: Get all authors whose name contains “beau”

Optional: Novels by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’ARNAUD and their tonality if available

Get all Items that have Matches to wikidata

List all Properties

Basic Data Extraction: Overview over some data and handling of missing data statements

Authors

Timeline: authors and their novels on a timeline by publication date

Authors and Awards

Authors and Organizations

Novels

Novels per Author

Publication Years

Narrative Perspective

Distribution Formats

Narrative Locations

Tone

First Publication

Novel Settings

Token Count and Narrative Form

Themes

List all Themes

Thematic Concepts

Query Specific Theme

Query Specific Theme #2

Display Themes

All Themes

Query Specific Theme given Area

Thematic Concepts

Spaces

Most Common Publication Places

Federated queries

Narrative Places, their Wikidata matches and geographic coordinates

Exact Wikidata Matches (Authors)

Change over time

Display Change over Time

Changes in Theme

Comparing sources

Comparing Topics

Visualizations

Bubble Chart: topics exctracted via Topic Modelling

Line Chart: Average Token Count

Animated Bar Chart: Count of different Tone per Intention over the years

Publication Places

Thematic Concepts, Novels and Authors

Authors and Organizations (at least 2 Members)

Queries about secondary literature and references

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