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RAMOSE

Quick start

RAMOSE turns SPARQL endpoints into documented REST APIs. You write a spec file describing your queries, and RAMOSE handles routing, type casting, filtering, and documentation generation.

Install

Section titled “Install”
Terminal window
pip install ramose

Requires Python 3.10 or later.

Create a spec file

Section titled “Create a spec file”

Save this as meta_v1.hf:

#url /v1
#type api
#base https://api.opencitations.net/meta
#title OpenCitations Meta REST API
#description REST API for bibliographic metadata from OpenCitations Meta
#version 1.0.0
#license ISC
#contacts [contact@opencitations.net](mailto:contact@opencitations.net)
#endpoint https://opencitations.net/meta/sparql
#method post


#url /metadata/{doi}
#type operation
#doi str(10\..+)
#method get
#description Returns bibliographic metadata for the given DOI.
#call /metadata/10.1162/qss_a_00292
#field_type str(title) datetime(pub_date) str(venue) str(type)
#sparql PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
PREFIX datacite: <http://purl.org/spar/datacite/>
PREFIX dcterm: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX fabio: <http://purl.org/spar/fabio/>
PREFIX frbr: <http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#>
PREFIX literal: <http://www.essepuntato.it/2010/06/literalreification/>
PREFIX prism: <http://prismstandard.org/namespaces/basic/2.0/>
SELECT ?title ?pub_date ?venue ?type WHERE {
  ?identifier literal:hasLiteralValue "[[doi]]"^^xsd:string ;
    datacite:usesIdentifierScheme datacite:doi ;
    ^datacite:hasIdentifier ?res .
  OPTIONAL { ?res dcterm:title ?title }
  OPTIONAL { ?res prism:publicationDate ?pub_date }
  OPTIONAL {
    ?res frbr:partOf+ ?journal .
    ?journal a fabio:Journal ; dcterm:title ?venue
  }
  OPTIONAL { ?res a ?type . FILTER(?type != fabio:Expression) }
}

The first section declares the API (endpoint, metadata). The second defines an operation: a URL pattern with a {doi} parameter, mapped to a SPARQL query where [[doi]] gets replaced at runtime.

Run locally

Section titled “Run locally”
Terminal window
python -m ramose -s meta_v1.hf -c '/v1/metadata/10.1162/qss_a_00292'

Output:

# Response HTTP code: 200
# Body:
[{"title": "OpenCitations Meta", "pub_date": "2024", "venue": "Quantitative Science Studies", "type": "journal article"}]
# Content-type: application/json

Start the web server

Section titled “Start the web server”
Terminal window
python -m ramose -s meta_v1.hf -w 127.0.0.1:8080

Open http://localhost:8080/v1 for auto-generated documentation, or query http://localhost:8080/v1/metadata/10.1162/qss_a_00292 directly.

What’s next

Section titled “What’s next”