RE: Southampton Pub data as linked open data

Chris Wallace wrote:  

Thanks for the feedback Chris...

> 	Thanks John for this resource - It inspires me to help my
students to do a similar data collection > exercise in Bristol!

Something tells me that students won't need too much encouragement in
collecting the data :)
	 

>	1) The resource URI eg.
http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/id/pub1

	 

>	is not humanly readable. Is this considered to be a problem?
For example DBPedia would be I think >be less valuable with
system-generated resource ids, even though natural resource ids require
a         >mechanism for disambiguation.  

I think most tools use the rdfs:label to show a more humanly readable
version.
 

>	2) The pub name has been re-formatting to catalogue order, but
pub names are proper nouns and I'd >be laughed at if I asked the way to
"Alexandra, The".  Perhaps both forms could be included with a
>different tag for the catalog format if it is not computable from the
natural name.

Yes fair point. They were left this way mainly because of my own
laziness.
	 


>	4) I feel uncomfortable with the non-uniform representation of
the address - partly with domain >specific-tags pub:street and
pub:postcode, partly with a company-specific (and non-humanly
decipherable) >URI.  I know that this is a can of worms e.g.
http://xml.coverpages.org/namesAndAddresses.html#eccma and >I can't find
a suitable address vocabulary but this mixture doesn't look very
satisfactory.

This was a problem. I actually looked around for a suitable address
ontology, but couldn't find one. Most ontologies for address I found
were for people rather than places. If this was a work project I
probably would have taken more care over the address, but as it was an
experiment on my own time I couldn't really be bothered :/ Sorry!
	 

>	5) pub:dateSurveyed:  isn't this  just the date at which the
description was authored (if not when >it was entered into this format)
i.e. dc:date 

To be honest I can't remember what the date was - I took it from my
friends website as they collected the data. Being tea total I didn't aid
in the data collection exercise :)
	 

> 	6) Generally , these seem such general properties of any place
that  I'm surprised that any local >vocabulary is needed at all, given
that no data is actually domain specific (like a list of beers >served).


Agreed really. If anyone does find any useful address ontologies I may
well change the RDF. 	 

>	This case study seems a great example of the issues in
vocabulary and resource reuse. It would be >interesting to compare the
different solutions which different analysts would use to represent this
data.  >Perhaps something like it would be a good exercise for the
Oxford VoCamp?

Yes. Sadly I can't make that as I'll be elsewhere.

John
	 

	
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Received on Monday, 28 July 2008 12:52:53 UTC