- From: David Huynh <dfhuynh@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:19:51 -0400
- To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Hugh Glaser wrote: > Hmm. > In a linked data world, the location of the institution would be published, > and then another linked world would be used to map place to lat/long? > > This could actually happen just within dbpedia. > So looking up the institution in dbpedia will often give the p:city, which > leads to geo:lat and geo:long. > So what is needed is to sameAs > http://data.semanticweb.org/organization/humboldt-universitaet-berlin > and > http://dbpedia.org/page/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin > etc > And then follow the Linked Data road. > > There are other solutions, but this is probably the simplest and safest? > Would someone familiar with how to do that just give me a RDF/XML file of the lat/lng coordinates? Or give me some more detailed actions. :-) I'm playing a dumb user here, who has no idea how to "sameAs" URIs. And how do I follow the Linked Data road without tedious handling of URIs? I think this is a rather realistic and conceptually simple task--getting related data given some existing data--that LOD would be wonderful for. Please show me the way! David
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