Quick and dirty viaf conversion script based on http://inkdroid.org/journal/2012/05/15/diving-into-viaf/

to-triples.py

import sys
import rdflib

for line in sys.stdin:
    g = rdflib.Graph()

    record_number, cluster_xml = line.split("\t", 1)

    try:
        g.parse(data=cluster_xml)
    except Exception as exc:
        print >>sys.stderr, "Unable to parse record: %s" % exc
        print >>sys.stderr, line
        break

    print g.serialize(format='nt').encode('utf-8'),