- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:46:12 -0400
- To: Samad Paydar <samadpaydar@yahoo.com>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Samad Paydar wrote: > Hi every one. > > I wanted to know what is the best or most popular approach to finding > appropriate predicates for publishing data of a special domain? > For instance when I'm looking for a specific predicate like "teaches", > (for instance to say "Jim teaches a course named "Java"), I try to > find an ontology which has a property named 'teaches'. I use Swoogle > for this reason. Then for the resulting ontologies, I perform SPARQL > queries on LOD SPARQL endpoint <http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql> to > see if these ontologies (and the required predicate) are used in LOD > datasets. Then I choose the ontology which is used most. > Is there any better approach than this popularity-based ad-hoc approach? > > Regards, > Samad Paydar > > Go to: http://lod.openlinksw.com Types in: teaches. The use the faceted navigation to see if you can find entities of type: rdf:Property, associated with the text pattern. Here's what I found via a quick test: http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct/facet.vsp?cmd=load&fsq_id=191132 . -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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