Re: HTTP URIs for real world objects

hi masahide:

 > yep, you can think, for example, an Wikipedia page as a Subject 
Indicator.
 >
 > :me a foaf:Person; foaf:interest wikipedia:Semantic_Web .
 > wikipedia:Semantic_Web foaf:primaryTopic concept:Semantic_Web .
 >
 > => :me foaf:topic_interest concept:Semantic_Web .

exactly this is what we analyzed quantitatively in [1] - in a nutshell, 
Wikipedia (or DBPedia) URIs are excellent PSIs and with about 1.8 
Million, this is also the largest set of consensual identifiers with a 
human-language definition.

See http://www.heppnetz.de/harvesting-wikipedia/

best
martin

[1] Martin Hepp, Katharina Siorpaes, Daniel Bachlechner:
Harvesting Wiki Consensus: Using Wikipedia Entries as Vocabulary  for 
Knowledge Management,
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 54-65, Sept-Oct 2007.
http://www.heppnetz.de/files/hepp-siorpaes-bachlechner-harvesting%20wikipedia%20w5054.pdf

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martin hepp, http://www.heppnetz.de


KANZAKI Masahide wrote:
> yep, you can think, for example, an Wikipedia page as a Subject Indicator.
> 
> :me a foaf:Person; foaf:interest wikipedia:Semantic_Web .
> wikipedia:Semantic_Web foaf:primaryTopic concept:Semantic_Web .
> 
> => :me foaf:topic_interest concept:Semantic_Web .
> 
> In a sense, foaf:interest uses the object document as *an* indicator
> of the subject(URI of such document is a Subject Identifier). And a
> (P)SI can indicate the subject by using an IFP such as
> foaf:primaryTopic.
> 
> So we can almost think that an Wikipedia page is an PSI, except it
> doesn't satisfy the last requirement of PSI: "A Published Subject
> Indicator must explicitly state the unique URI that is to be used as
> its Published Subject Identifier" (3.1.3 in spec).
> 
> cheers,