- From: Joshua Tauberer <jt@occams.info>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:34:09 -0400
- To: "Dickinson, Ian J. (HP Labs, Bristol, UK)" <ian.dickinson@hp.com>
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Dickinson, Ian J. (HP Labs, Bristol, UK) wrote: > OTOH, it's hard to come up with > really compelling examples to use with non-specialists. Which > examples does anyone else use to get the idea of LOD across in the > mainstream? I can give an example that someone gave *me*. This is from 'Roger' on my GovTrack mail list: > DBPedia has this example query [in English]: > > "Mayors of US cities higher than 1000m" > > stored here: http://wikipedia.aksw.org/index.php?qid=9 > > I don't know how to display the raw SPARQL for this. But I might want > to "join" this query with: > > "and where earmarks were proposed in the current Congress". > > I saw that earmarks are not yet in GovTrack, but this is an example > query I could dream up to "join" the disparate data source. It's still a little esoteric, but earmarks are a hot issue in the U.S. -- - Josh Tauberer http://razor.occams.info "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation! Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to Tortoise (in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter)
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