- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:46:44 -0400
- To: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
- CC: Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, public-lod@w3.org, Anja Jentzsch <anja@anjeve.de>
Leigh Dodds wrote: > Hi, > > I've just added several new datasets to the Statistics page that > weren't previously listed. Its not really a great user experience > editing the wiki markup and manually adding up the figures. > > So, thinking out loud, I'm wondering whether it might be more > appropriate to use a Google spreadsheet and one of their submission > forms for the purposes of collectively the data. A little manual > editing to remove duplicates might make managing this data a little > more easier. Especially as there are also pages that separately list > the available SPARQL endpoints and RDF dumps. > > I'm sure we could create something much better using Void, etc but for > now, maybe using a slightly better tool would give us a little more > progress? It'd be a snip to dump out the Google Spreadsheet data > programmatically too, which'd be another improvement on the current > situation. > > What does everyone else think? > Nice Idea! Especially as Google Spreadsheet to RDF is just about RDFizers for the Google Spreadsheet API :-) Kingsley > Cheers, > > L. > > 2009/8/7 Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk>: > >> Dear all, >> >> We are planning to produce an updated data cloud diagram based on the >> dataset information on the esw wiki page: >> http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics >> >> If you have not published your dataset there yet and you would like your >> dataset to be included, can you please add your dataset there? >> >> If you have an entry there for your dataset already, can you please update >> information about your dataset on the wiki? >> >> If you cannot edit the wiki page any more because the recent update of esw >> wiki editing policy, you can send the information to me or Anja, who is >> cc'ed. We can update it for you. >> >> If you know your friends have dataset on the wiki, but are not on the >> mailing list, can you please kindly forward this email to them? We would >> like to get the data cloud as up-to-date as possible. >> >> For this release, we will use the above wiki page as the information >> gathering point. We do apologize if you have published information about >> your dataset on other web pages and this request would mean extra work for >> you. >> >> Many thanks for your contributions! >> >> Kindest regards, >> >> Jun >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. >> For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> >> > > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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