text: #rdf namespaces
  namespaces = {
      'root' : 'https://www.github.com/superphy#',
      'ge' : 'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GENEPIO_',
      'g' : 'http://www.biointerchange.org/gfvo#',
      'obi' : 'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_',
      'envo' : 'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_',
      'doid' : 'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_',
      'faldo' : 'http://biohackathon.org/resource/faldo#',
      'ncbi' : 'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBI_Taxon_',
      'so' : 'http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_',
      'dc' : 'http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/',
      'rdf' : 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
  }
  
  #database defaults
  database = {}
  database['blazegraph_url'] = 'http://10.139.14.172:9000/blazegraph/namespace/superphy/sparql'
  #database['blazegraph_url'] = 'http://localhost:9000/blazegraph/namespace/superphy/sparql'
  #note: the convention here is database['count'] is NOT occupied
  # on new DB, start at 1
  database['count'] = 1
  