Welcome to the Databus usage wiki!

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Overview

The process of registering data and metadata is split up into two different services: the DBpedia Databus for registering the data and the Mods/MOSS system for annotating said data with metadata.

Registering data on the Databus

Note that the Databus does not store the data but rather links to it. So the data must be available with an URI. There are multiple tools available for submitting data to the Databus: The Web UI interface, an REST API and a simple python script implementing the functionalities of the Web UI for the REST API. This wiki page contains a guide for each of this processes.

Annotating data with metadata

During the process of submitting data to the Databus only very basic metadata is used to keep it simple (license, publisher etc.). For annotating data with extensive metadata the Databus ecosystem provides Databus Mods. MOSS (Metadata Overlay Search System) is a easily usable implementation of said Mods and allows the annotation of files with simple resource tags or with complete RDF graphs. This wiki page contains a step by step guide of how to generate RDF metadata from JSON metadata and how to submit it to the Mods System.