- From: Aldo Bucchi <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:06:42 -0300
- To: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
- Cc: digitales-por-chile@googlegroups.com, rzilleruelo <rzilleruelo@gmail.com>, Daniel Pérez Rada <dperezrada@gmail.com>, Nicolas Dujovne <ndujovne@gmail.com>
Hi, As most of you heard things were a bit shaky down here in Chile. We have some requests and hope you guys can help. This is a moment to prove what we always boast about: that Linked Data can solve real problems. Google provides a prople finder service (http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/) which is right now centralizing some ( but not all ) of the missing people data. This service is OK but it lacks some features plus we need to integrate with other sources to perform analysis and aid our rescue teams / alleviate families. This is serious matter but it is indeed taken a bti lightly by existing software. ( there is a tradeoff between the amount of structure you can impose and ease of use in the front-line ). What we would love to have is a way to access all feeds from <http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/> as RDF We already have some databases operating on these feeds, but we're still far away a clean solution because of its loose structure ( take a look and you'll see what I mean ). Who wants to take a shot at this? Requirements. - Take all feeds originating from <http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/> - Generate an initial RDF dump ( big TTL file ) - Generate Incremental RDF dumps every hour The transfromation should do its best guess at the ideal data structure and try not to loose granularity but shield us a bit from this feed based model. We then take care of downloading this, integrating with other systems, further processing, geocoding, etc. There's a lot of work to do and the more we can outsource, the bettter. On Friday ( tomorrow ) there will be the first nation-wide announcement of our search platform and we expect lots of people to use our services. So this is something really urgent and really, really important for those who need it. Ah. Volunteers are moving all this data into a Virtuoso instance that will also have more stuff. It will be available soon at http://opendata.cl/ so stay tuned. We really hope we had something like DBpedia in place by now, it would make all this much easier. But now is the time. Guys, the tsunami casualties could have been avoided it was all about mis-information. Same goes for relief efforts. They are not optimal and this is all about data in the end. I know you know how valuable data is. But it is now that you can really make your point! Triple by Triple. Thanks! A -- Aldo Bucchi skype:aldo.bucchi http://www.univrz.com/ http://aldobucchi.com/ PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION This message is only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not distribute or copy this communication, by e-mail or otherwise. Instead, please notify us immediately by return e-mail.
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