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Bricklink

Dataset Bricklink
Licence Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
Published 14th March 2011
Updated 2nd March 2012
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Bricklink

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)

 

Bricklink is an unofficial lego marketplace. Essentially it is the EBay for lego, where you can buy or sell anything to do with Lego. The lego community maintain a number of fantastic resources that catalogue all of the Lego products, often down to the detail of the number, colour and type of each part in a lego set. The catalogue that powers the Bricklink website is available for download and reuse and has been used to create this dataset.

Currently the dataset consists of descriptions of over 9000 Lego sets and over 23,000 Lego parts. A number of the lego sets have detailed inventories including number, type and colour of parts. There are also links to sets, instructions and part images.

 

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Identify all parts for your set
Richard Francis
11th Aug 2011

Change <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/bricklink/set/MYSET/inventory> to have your set id.

Query: 
select ?partid ?quantity where { <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/bricklink/set/MYSET/inventory> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasPart> ?part . ?part <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/bricklink/schema/item> ?partid . ?part <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#value> ?quantity . }
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List all Lego Sets in the Lego Classic Space theme
Leigh Dodds
28th Oct 2011

This query simply returns a list of lego sets, including their URI, name and identifier where the sets are all in a specific category. In this case its the "Space" category which applies to the Lego Classic space theme.

Query: 
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> PREFIX bricklink: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/bricklink/schema/> SELECT ?set ?id ?label WHERE { ?set a bricklink:Set; bricklink:category ?category; dcterms:identifier ?id; rdfs:label ?label. ?category skos:prefLabel "Space". }
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Find number of Lego Sets in each category
Leigh Dodds
28th Oct 2011

This query returns a list of the categories in the system that have Lego Sets in them, along with a count of how many sets there are. The results are returned in descending order, so the category with the most sets is returned first.

Query: 
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> PREFIX bricklink: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/bricklink/schema/> SELECT ?category (count(?set) as ?count) WHERE { ?set bricklink:category ?category; a bricklink:Set. ?category skos:prefLabel ?label; a skos:Concept. } GROUP BY ?category ORDER BY DESC(?count)
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<script
     type="text/javascript"
     src="http://api.kasabi.com/dataset/bricklink/attribution">
</script>

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External Sources

The following external sources were used in creating or compiling this dataset
  • http://bricklink.com
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