- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:09:10 -0400
- CC: Sergey Chernyshev <lodlist.w3c.org@antispam.sergeychernyshev.com>, public-lod@w3.org
Richard Cyganiak wrote: > > Sergey, > > Welcome to the list! > > On 28 Mar 2008, at 18:51, Sergey Chernyshev wrote: >> My name is Sergey Shernyshev and I'm running TechPresentations.org >> project using Semantic MediaWiki (SMW). >> >> Currently I'm thinking about making the dataset more open and want to >> connect it to LOD through presentation topics that I recently >> introduced into the project. >> I wonder if someone can give me any recomendations about going open? >> >> I see two major parts here: >> 1. Using some open vocabulary for describing the data. The question >> here is how do I find a vocabulary? The only one relatively close to >> TechPresentations is http://www.w3.org/2004/08/Presentations.owl >> (thanks to Ivan Herman for this!), but it's definitely geared towards >> w3c's activities and I don't know if there is anything else beyond >> that on the market, will appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. > > I think that FOAF, the Dublin Core Terms, and the SWRC ontology should > provide you with a fairly complete collection of the required terms. > If you can't find anything that fits your needs, don't hesitate to > create your own classes and properties, you can always add superclass > relationships to existing terms later. > >> 2. Connecting to LOD dataset. Being quite new to the project, I have >> very vague idea of the process and will be happy to get a pointer to >> some documentation about it. SMW is a great tool and I'll be happy to >> work with it's development team to incorporate all the best practices >> that will make all SMW-powered sites a potential source for LOD data, >> I just need to get better understanding of the requirements. >> >> Right now I'm just working on adding "Equivalent URI" SMW special >> property to pages which get translated to "owl:sameAs" on RDF export >> - you can see an example of the page here: >> http://www.techpresentations.org/MySQL (factbox at the bottom links >> to DBPedia's http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL) and >> http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:ExportRDF/MySQL - RDF export >> for the page (you can see <owl:sameAs >> rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL"/> being added). > > Some potential interlinking opportunities: > > - owl:sameAs to DBpedia for topics covered in TechPresentations.org, > as you already do > - foaf:homepage links for people (if known) > - owl:sameAs links to FOAF profiles of people (if known) > - OntoWorld.org seems to cover some of the same ground and already has > URIs for many people, conferences and so on > - The L3S DBLP server already has URIs for many people and the papers > that might be associated with the talks > >> I also have some ideas on how SMW and it's extensions (Semantic >> Forms, Semantic Drilldown and some visualization extensions like >> Semantic Google Maps and etc.) can be useful for LOD project, for >> example, it can be used as publicly open editor for interconnections >> between various datasets. > > Interesting. There is some (still very early) existing work about > open, collaborative interlinking here: > http://143.224.254.32/irs/ > > Richard Richard, Who is behind: http://143.224.254.32/irs/ ? I ask because I note that it doesn't attempt discern owl:sameAs links from input URIs. For instance, I have a lot of owl:sameAs links that can be discerned via any of my data space uris: 1. http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this 2. http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/person/kidehen2#this 3. http://kidehen.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this The system should ask me to confirm the owl:sameAs claims rather than make me type them in all over again, is my key point. Kingsley > > >> I'll be happy to discuss them with the community if there is interest >> in this technology. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Sergey >> >> >> -- >> Sergey Chernyshev >> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/ > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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