Transform¶

The transform step makes changes to the record:

If you do not have a stream of records yet, read the documentation for the Extract step first.

Once you have a stream of records, the following transformations are typically needed:

• Values need to be mapped onto a prepared list of IRIs or literals (e.g. from country names to country-denoting IRIs).
• Values need to be translated into standards-compliant formats (e.g., from country name to ISO 3166 country codes).
• Multiple existing values need to be combined into one new value (e.g., street name and house number may be combined into an address).
• A single value needs to be split into multiple values (e.g., from 'apple, orange' to 'apple' and 'orange').
• Values need to be cleaned because they are dirty in the source (e.g., from '001 ' to 1).

TriplyETL supports the following four transformation approaches:

• RATT transformations are a set of commonly used transformation functions that are developed and maintained by Triply.
• RML can be used to convert non-RDF data into RDF triples.
• TypeScript can be used to write new customer transformations.
• XSLT used to transform XML data through the definition of transformation rules in XSLT stylesheets.

Next steps¶

The Transform step results in a cleaned and enriched record. The following link documents how you can use the record to make linked data assertions:

• Step 3. Assert: uses data from the record to make linked data assertions in the internal store.