Re: ESWC 2008 Linked Data Playground

Hi Dan,

> Do you have such info for any/all attendees? I'd presume at least you have 
> email contact for the authors, or main author. Do the site's terms of 
> service allow you to re-share this information? Even a hashed email can be 
> fed to http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ or other crawlers quite 
> usefully.

The hashed emails of the authors are in the dataset. We have a list with 
contact information for all attendees but I doubt that it would be OK to put 
it on the web due to privacy reasons. I will check with Sean.

It is exactly that kind of data merging and mining that you plan to do which 
is great on the one hand but could also get very intrusive in the future if 
people not only do it for honest reasons.

So, lots of interesting questions here ;-)

Cheers

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@danbri.org>
To: "Chris Bizer" <chris@bizer.de>
Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: ESWC 2008 Linked Data Playground


> Chris Bizer wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Paul, Richard, Knud, Tom, Sean, Denny and I have published some data
>> describing papers and authors of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference
>> (ESWC2008).
>>
>> The data is interlinked with DBpedia, Revyu and the Semantic Web 
>> Community
>> Wiki. So if you add a review about a paper to Revyu or if you add 
>> something
>> to the wiki, your data will mix nicely with the data that is already
>> published about the conference on the Web.
>>
>> See http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2008/html
>> for a description of the dataset and its use cases.
>>
>> The data is currently also being crawled by several Semantic Web search
>> engines and we hope to be able to add a section about how to use the data
>> within these search engines before the weekend.
>>
>> If you have any ideas for further use cases or know about other Semantic 
>> Web
>> client applications that could be used to navigate, visualize or search 
>> the
>> data please let me know so that we can add them to the webpage.
>
> Fun stuff indeed :)
>
> Here's my use case: I want to grab and archive for future use, information 
> about people who are attending or authoring at the conference. And I want 
> to be able to join that with other information I have local access to (eg. 
> I have email addresses of XTech'08 attendees), as well as use services 
> like Google Social Graph API which provide identity reasoning based on 
> public XFN and FOAF.
>
> It seems I can do this kind of thing quite nicely:
>
> CONSTRUCT {
>  ?author a foaf:Person .
>  ?author foaf:name  ?authorName .
>  <http://example.com/eswc2008-authors#group> foaf:member  ?author .
>  <http://example.com/eswc2008-authors#group> a foaf:Group .
> }
> WHERE {
>   ?author rdf:type foaf:Person .
>   ?author rdfs:label ?authorName .
> }
>
>
> ie. 
> http://data.semanticweb.org/snorql/?query=SELECT+DISTINCT+%3FauthorName+%3Fauthor+%0D%0AWHERE+{%0D%0A++%3Fauthor+rdf%3Atype+foaf%3APerson+.%0D%0A++%3Fauthor+rdfs%3Alabel+%3FauthorName+.%0D%0A}%0D%0AORDER+BY+%3FauthorName
>
> ...giving markup like this:
>
> <rdf:Description 
> rdf:about="http://data.semanticweb.org/person/guus-schreiber">
> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person"/>
> <foaf:name>Guus Schreiber</foaf:name>
> </rdf:Description>
>
> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.com/eswc2008-authors#group">
> <foaf:member 
> rdf:resource="http://data.semanticweb.org/person/guus-schreiber"/>
> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Group"/>
> </rdf:Description>
>
>
> ...however I'd love to have some more identifying properties of Guus here, 
> eg. mailbox hash, homepage, openid, weblog, or at least sameAs to other 
> URIs for him where such descriptions can be obtained.
>
> Do you have such info for any/all attendees? I'd presume at least you have 
> email contact for the authors, or main author. Do the site's terms of 
> service allow you to re-share this information? Even a hashed email can be 
> fed to http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ or other crawlers quite 
> usefully.  However it would be really great to have a single URI from 
> which we could download a list of authors (or authors/attendees) with 
> inverse functional property descriptions, owl:sameAs as identifying 
> characteristics.
>
> Why might I want this? 'cos I'm experimenting with use of foaf:Group 
> descriptions as filters against the Web (eg. flickr photos, twitter 
> comments, wiki and blog post approval). So I go through life looking for 
> nice lists of people I can categorize in an ad-hoc way to help with such 
> things. Lists that come from evidence of real world activity (eg. people 
> I've sent email to) rather than being merely asserted.
>
> "Semantic Web people" is one such group (and yes, could be done as an OWL 
> class; as well as with RIF, SPARQL or whatever). So building up a list of 
> Semantic Web people from grassroots evidence seems quite a nice use case 
> for this technology. If someone has had a paper accepted to ESWC, that is 
> perfectly adequate evidence for me to say "ok, they can post to my blog 
> without being spam-trapped.". As well as a nice way of auto-generating a 
> blog aggregator. But to do this we need bindings from ESWC'08 people URIs 
> to other identifiers (URIs & IFPs) that might be in use elsewhere in the 
> Web. Is this something that you could make easier somehow?
>
> Thanks again for everyone who worked on getting this data out there! Much 
> appreciated (even if my 1st response is to ask for more ;)
>
> Hope to see many of you at ESWC this week...
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
> ps. more on my thinking re foaf:Group is here: 
> http://danbri.org/words/2008/01/22/260
>
> --
> http://danbri.org/

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