Freebase wrapper (was:RE: New Calais proxy could grow Linked Data Cloud)

Hi Kingsley,

> Example Proxy / Wrapper URIs in the wild:
> 
> 1.
>
http://demo.openlinksw.com/proxy/html/http://www.freebase.com/view/en/a
> braham_lincoln
> - Document about Abraham Lincoln
> 2.
>
http://demo.openlinksw.com/about/html/http://demo.openlinksw.com/about/
> rdf/http://www.freebase.com/view/en/abraham_lincoln%23this
> - Abraham Lincoln the Entity of type foaf:Person that is also a
> sioc:Item

these URIs unfortunately do not show any data.
Would be great to see your freebase wrapper in action...

Best,
Georgi

--
Georgi Kobilarov
Freie Universität Berlin
www.georgikobilarov.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Kingsley Idehen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:02 PM
> To: Paul Miller
> Cc: public-lod@w3.org
> Subject: Re: New Calais proxy could grow Linked Data Cloud
> 
> 
> Paul Miller wrote:
> > Members of this list might be interested in my write-up of
> > ThomsonReuters' latest beta service... which I think will prove
> pretty
> > useful in growing the Linked Data cloud... especially for news
> content
> > from the BBC et al...
> >
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=194
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > --
> > Paul Miller
> > Technology Evangelist, Talis
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> > mobile/cell: +44 7769 740083
> >
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/
> >
> > _www.linkedin.com/in/pau1mi11er
> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/pau1mi11er>_
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Paul,
> 
> How does this actually benefit or contribute to the Linked Data Cloud?
> I
> ask specifically because URIs (of the dereferencable variety) are
> missing in action. Hopefully, I am completely overlooking something
> here :-)
> 
> We tend to use the term "Proxy" or "Wrapper" to describe solutions in
> the Linked Data realm that generate dereferencable URIs based RDF
> graphs  (aka. Linked Data Spaces) "on the fly" via RDF-ization
> middleware.
> 
> If possible, please encourage the OpenCalais folks (Tom et al.) to
> respond to my comments above via a response to this post.
> 
> Example Proxy / Wrapper URIs in the wild:
> 
> 1.
>
http://demo.openlinksw.com/proxy/html/http://www.freebase.com/view/en/a
> braham_lincoln
> - Document about Abraham Lincoln
> 2.
>
http://demo.openlinksw.com/about/html/http://demo.openlinksw.com/about/
> rdf/http://www.freebase.com/view/en/abraham_lincoln%23this
> - Abraham Lincoln the Entity of type foaf:Person that is also a
> sioc:Item
> 3.
>
http://demo.openlinksw.com/about/html/http://demo.openlinksw.com/about/
> rdf/http://www.crunchbase.com/company/thomson-reuters%23this
> - Thompson Reuters the Entity of type foaf:Organization that is also a
> sioc:Item
> 4. http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/flickrwrappr/photos/Thomson_Reuters
> -
> Thompson Reuters photos from Flickr
> 5.
>
http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww4.wiwiss.fu
> -berlin.de%2Fflickrwrappr%2Fphotos%2FThomson_Reuters
> - Browser view of the data space exposed by the Flickr wrapper URI
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kingsley Idehen	      Weblog:
http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
> President & CEO
> OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
> 
> 
> 

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