- From: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:31:08 +0100
- To: "Tom Heath" <Tom.Heath@talis.com>
- Cc: "Chris Sizemore" <Chris.Sizemore@bbc.co.uk>, public-lod@w3.org, "Silver Oliver" <Silver.Oliver@bbc.co.uk>, "Michael Smethurst" <Michael.Smethurst@bbc.co.uk>
Hello! I'd just like to point out the following: http://www.omdb.org/movie which has a better licensing, it seems: http://www.omdb.org/content/Copyright Perhaps worth getting in touch with them to see if they can provide some RDF? > > AFAIK Jen Golbeck used imdb data for Filmtrust [1] (not this is not > published as linked data unfortunately, and I'm not sure what the status > is), but in general I think people have given the imdb data a fairly > wide berth in the LOD community precisely due to the licensing issues. I > certainly looked into it WRT Revyu, but instead opted to use film data > from Dbpedia as this is more in spirit with the efforts of the > community. Until the day comes when imdb publishes linkable (and linked) > data then I'd argue in favour of giving the link-cred to Dbpedia. > > Last summer at KMi Peter Coetzee produced a pretty accurate list of all > the films in Dbpedia, excluding the items classified as films that > actually aren't. This produced a set of ~12,000 items (down from the > 30,000 actually classified as films - sorry Georgi ;) I'd be very happy > to dig this data set out of storage and share it with the community if > people would be interested to see it. > > <snip> > > > in other words, given the imdb licensing realities, are imdb > > URIs useful as identifiers even if we can't use the related > > data? are URIs useful in LOD on their own? > </snip> > > In summary I think we should pour the effort into Dbpedia (and related > projects already within the LD space), on the basis that imdb can join > the party later if they wish. > > Re using URI's based on imdb identifiers, I think it does no harm to add > pointers to imdb pages (e.g. <film-on-dbpedia> foaf:page > <page-on-imdb>), but one shouldn't mint URIs in someone else namespace > (i.e. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/#thing> is out). However, > there's nothing to stop you minting identifiers such as > <http://mydomain.eg/imdb/title/tt0088846>. Yes, I would either mint new URIs, which can later sameAs to IMDB URIs, or use a foaf:page to link to the IMDB page. Anyway, both of them would be useful! Cheers! y
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