Linked Data Creation with ExcelRDF

Karl Hammar

Abstract: Constructing an RDF-based knowledge graph requires designing a data model (typically an OWL ontology) and transforming one’s data into an RDF representation that is compliant with said model. This paper introduces ExcelRDF, a plugin for Microsoft Excel that is intended to simplify the latter task. ExcelRDF can translate an OWL ontology into an Excel skeleton file (empty apart from column headers). It can then, once that skeleton file has been filled out with data, translate it back into an RDF graph representation. ExcelRDF is designed to be simple to install and use, and to work with existing Excel-based data management workflows.