Find a detailed documentation at https://ttl2html-doc.readthedocs.io/.

Static site generator for Linked Data.

This tool accepts RDF/Turtle format as input to generate the corresponding HTML files.

The Linked Data Principle [TBL:2006] suggests that identifying things as HTTP URIs (resources) and resolving them on the Web is important. This tool helps to generate a website for a Linked Data dataset and publish it on the Web.

Install with gem install ttl2html

• RDF/Turtle to HTML files
• Mapping property labels
• Mapping title properties
• ERB templates based on Bootstrap
• SHACL to documentation for the dataset schema

You can use a command line tool ttl2html. You need to create a configuration file named config.yml with a YAML format, as follows: One required key for the configuration is base_uri.

base_uri: https://www.example.org/

With this configuration file, you can execute a command:

ttl2html dataset.ttl

The command parses a dataset file and generate a HTML files.

ttl2html --config test.yml dataset.ttl

The command ttl2html accepts the following options:

• --config file: Read the configuration file from file (Default: config.yml).

You can setup several options on the configuration file, config.yml (default).

base_uri: https://www.example.org/
output_dir: /var/www/html/dataset/
labels:
  http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type: Class
  http://schema.org/name: Title
site_title: A sample dataset
title_property: http://example.org/title
top_class: http://schema.org/Book

• base_uri: (Required) Base URI for the dataset. Base URI is considered as the prefix for the target resources, and only the matched URIs with the prefix are picked up for the generation.
• output_dir: Output directory for the dataset.
• labels: Mappings for the custom property labels.
• site_title: Main title for the whole website.
• title_property: Specified URI is regarded as a title property for the resource. In default, a title is matched with the following properties:
  • https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#label
  • http://purl.org/dc/terms/title
  • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title
  • http://schema.org/name
  • http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#prefLabel
• top_class: Specified URI is the class of the records listed in the top page. By default, this tool does not generate the top page.

A more detailed instructions can be found at https://ttl2html-doc.readthedocs.io/.

🏆 We received the Technology Award at the LOD Challenge Japan 2024

• Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2024 Organizing Committee. [Press release] Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2024 Winners Announced. 2024-11-27. (in Japanese)
• Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2024 Organizing Committee. [Event report] LOD Challenge Japan 2024 Award Ceremony Symposium. 2025-01-11. (in Japanese)
• Yuka Egusa. We received the "Technology Award" at the "LOD Challenge 2024". NIER NEWS. 2025, No.222, p.10. (in Japanese)

There is another tool xlsx2shape to describe a dataset schema using SHACL. See README-xlsx2shape.md for details.

This tool is based on experiences from publishing Japanese Textbook LOD dataset [JP-TEXTBOOK:2017].

• [TBL:2006] Tim-Berner Lee (2006). "Linked Data". https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
• [JP-TEXTBOOK:2017] Y. Egusa & M. Takaku (2017). "Japanese Textbook LOD". https://w3id.org/jp-textbook/