Re: LLD@CKAN

Thanks Tom - I'll update the mentions of Freebase 

Owen 

On 3 May 2011, at 18:27, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Owen,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Owen Stephens <owen@ostephens.com> wrote:
>> I've recently updated the list of examples of 'open' bibliographic data,
>> which includes lots of LLD at http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/examples - I used CKAN
>> quite a bit putting together this list.
> 
> Your data for Freebase is either very out of date or you perhaps took
> a statement about 1.3million Stanford Library book editions as
> representing the entire corpus.
> 
> Currently Freebase has:
> 
> 3,409,670 book editions http://www.freebase.com/view/book/book_edition
> 2,436,268 books (ie works)
>   559,148 authors
> 
> More interesting, at least to my mind, is how the books are linked to
> their film and stage adaptations
> (http://www.freebase.com/view/topic/en/adventures_of_huckleberry_finn),
> the authors to their Wikipedia entries describing their real life,
> publishers to their imprints and stock symbols, etc.
> 
> Tom

Received on Tuesday, 3 May 2011 23:06:41 UTC