Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

Hi Paul,

 From the perspective of a small city (100,000 population) our Citizen 
Dan site covers community topics pretty familiar to everyone and has 
working visualizations:

http://citizen-dan.org/

You can also grab the datasets for your own local use at:

http://citizen-dan.org/osf/export

Thanks, Mike

On 3/11/2015 6:13 PM, Paul Houle wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>        I am looking for some RDF data sets to use in a short
> presentation on RDF and SPARQL.  I want to do a short demo,  and since
> RDF and SPARQL will be new to this audience,  I was hoping for something
> where the predicates would be easy to understand.
>
>       I was hoping that the LOGD data from RPI/TWC would be suitable,
>   but once I found the old web site (the new one is down) and manually
> fixed the broken download link I found the predicates were like
>
> <http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/vocab/p/1525/v96>
>
> and the only documentation I could find for them (maybe I wasn't looking
> in the right place) was that this predicate has an rdf:label of "V96".)
>
> Note that an alpha+numeric code is good enough for Wikidata and it is
> certainly concise,  but I don't want :v96 to be the first things that
> these people see.
>
> Something I like about this particular data set is that it is about 1
> million triples which is big enough to be interesting but also small
> enough that I can load it in a few seconds,  so that performance issues
> are not a distraction.
>
> The vocabulary in DBpedia is closer to what I want (and if I write the
> queries most of the distracting things about vocab are a non-issue) but
> then data quality issues are the distraction.
>
> So what I am looking for is something around 1 m triples in size (in
> terms of order-of-magnitude) and where there are no distractions due to
> obtuse vocabulary or data quality issues.  It would be exceptionally
> cool if there were two data sets that fit the bill and I could load them
> into the triple store together to demonstrate "mashability"
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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