Re: DBpedia - Usage Example

Hi Laufer,



I’ve been thinking about the DBpedia dataset example over the weekend.
This may not be what you are looking for, but thinking about the DBpedia
example generated many ideas that may be useful as we discuss how we
implement Dataset Usage Vocabulary concepts in the real world.



DBpedia is one of the premier off the chart rock stars of datasets  I find
it the very opposite of many obscure scientific datasets that I am more
accustomed.  My first reaction when you provided the links to DBpedia
applications I thought this example was much to trivial depicting
associations between the dataset and the application links.    However the
more I thought about this rockstar dataset, the more I got to thinking
about “who” was talking about usage of the dataset, “who” was talking about
applications and experiences with the dataset.  Was I ever wrong to think
your posed example problem was trival.


Here’s what I found:

Twitter feeds, Reddit, Tumblr, Youtube, Github, scholar.google.com are all
talking about DBpedia data usage in blogs, forums, code repositories etc.
The dataset usage discussions are happening in multiple natural languages.
These discussions involved experts and novices.



The problem is that all of these wonderful knowledge exchanges are
happening in a variety of forms and there is no composite way to complete
my understanding about DBpedia dataset application usage.



One possible application from a consumer perspective of the dataset usage
vocabulary is that I have a service that can periodically search these
services and maintain a database composite picture of dataset usage using
the Dataset Usage Vocabulary as a common representation that may describe
experiences using the SPARQL API and tools and example queries that are
refinements of what is provided by DBpedia.  From the dataset publisher
perspective this same application could help aid in discovering what people
are discussing that aren’t directly reported to the website.



Sumit and I are meeting with a group of scientists tomorrow to explore how
scientists can explore the deep web more effectively for climate research.



I don't know if this is useful to you, but I'm curious as to what you and
others in the group think of the "usage" of the Dataset Usage Vocab.


Cheers,


Eric S

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Eric Stephan <ericphb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Laufer,
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> Great idea, perhaps this would be another example I could work
> through...keep these ideas coming :-)
>
> Eric
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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Laufer <laufer@globo.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Eric,
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>> Maybe would be interesting to see how DUV could be used with DBpedia.
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>> There is a web page with a list of applications that use the Dataset:
>> http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Applications
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>> There is another web page that explain the online access to the Dataset:
>> http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess
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>> Cheers,
>> Laufer
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