- From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:06:37 +0200
- To: Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl, Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
Hello Steven Discovering your excellent page at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2009/rdfa-for-html-authors ... just in time with recent Google's announcement! About "Talking about People, Places and Things", just a remark. You write "The city of Amsterdam doesn't have a URI". Well, not quite so now. The entity "City of Amsterdam" *has* indeed several (too many, actually) coined URIs, such as : http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amsterdam http://sws.geonames.org/2759793/ http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/guid.9202a8c04000641f8000000000004475 http://mpii.de/yago/resource/Amsterdam http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViJppwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA All those being URIs for this same entity, de-referencable along with their RDF description, and parts of the linked data cloud. See http://linkeddata.org for more about it So if your page could include reference to such URIs, it would be great for the linked data community! Good to keep the blank node approach you explain quite well for those entities with really no URI. But there are less and less of those ... Even Love has a URI ... http://dbpedia.org/resource/Love :-) Best Bernard -- *Bernard Vatant *Senior Consultant Vocabulary & Data Engineering Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/> ----------------------------------------------------**
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