LauNuts is a RDF Knowledge Graph consisting of:

• Local Administrative Units (LAU) and
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)

It is a hierarchical system where geographical areas are subdivided according to their population sizes. This repository provides a generator to create a RDF Knowledge Graph from Excel input data. Additional resources are available at w3id.org/launuts.

Software

The software in this repository can be executed as follows:

Usage:   COMMAND [OPTIONS] MODE
Example: java -jar launuts.jar -ids "nuts-2016-2021 lau2021-nuts2021" dl
Modes:
  ls:   Lists available dataset IDs
  dl:   Downloads Excel files
  csv:  Converts Excel files to CSV
  ct:   Lists available LAU countries
  kg:   Create knowledge graph
  help: Prints this help
Options:
 -countries <"C1 C2 ...">
 -ids <"ID1 ID2 ...">

Installation

To run the Software, Java has to be installed on your System.
If you want to convert Excel data, please have a look into data processing.

Documentation

• Development
• Data processing pipline
• Related ressources
• Additional notes

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the project EML4U under the grant no 01IS19080B and by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) within the project OPAL under the grant no 19F2028A.

Credits

Data Science Group (DICE) at Paderborn University, Adrian Wilke