Ookaboo does #it

Ookaboo has recently grown to contain about 480,000 pictures of
265,000 topics,  we're adding 8,000 images a day so if you don't find
what you're looking for today,  just wait a few months.  People and
places are particularly well represented,  but you'll also find
"miscelaneous" things like

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/12461285/Fingerpaint

We've just done a major upgrade of our RDFa output at Ookaboo.  For
one thing,  we've clarified the relationship between a page

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/2021903/Central_Air_Force_Museum

and the thing that a page describes

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/2021903/Central_Air_Force_Museum#it

We can then say,

<ookaboo:topic/2021903/Central_Air_Force_Museum> <sioc:topic>
<ookaboo:topic/2021903/Central_Air_Force_Museum#it> .

Generally,  we make SIOC assertion about web pages and other sorts of
assertions about #it topics.  The primary FOAF assertion we're making
right now is <foaf:depitcts>,  but we're planning to make as many FOAF
assertions as possible about #it topics,  particularly about people.
The other class of page that is heavily marked up now is the
individual page.

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/picture/2022007/Kamov_Ka25_Hormon

Our strategy for dealing with multiple subject terminologies is to
what we call a reference set,  which in this case is

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/2021903/Central_Air_Force_Museum#it
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Central_Air_Force_Museum
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.0g_2bv

If we want to assert foaf:depicts we assert foaf:depicts against all
of these.  The idea is that not all clients are going to have the
inferencing capabilities that I wish they'd have,  so I'm trying to
assert terms in the most "core" databases of the LOD cloud.

In a case like this we may have YAGO,  OpenCyc,  UMBEL and other terms
available.  Relationships like this are expressed as

<:Whatever> <ontology2:aka>
<http://mpii.de/yago/resource/Central_Air_Force_Museum> .

<ontology2:aka>,  not dereferencable yet,  means (roughly) that "some
people use term X to refer to substantially the same thing as term Y."
 It's my own answer to the <owl:sameAs> problem and deliberately
leaves the exact semantics to the reader.  (It's a lossy expression of
the data structures that I use for entity management)

Any thoughts or suggestions about what I should be doing differently or better?

Received on Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:45:43 UTC