- From: Aldo Bucchi <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:00:54 -0400
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>, Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, Anja Jentzsch <anja@anjeve.de>
Hi, On Aug 11, 2009, at 13:46, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > Leigh Dodds wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just added several new datasets to the Statistics page that >> weren't previously listed. Its not really a great user experience >> editing the wiki markup and manually adding up the figures. >> >> So, thinking out loud, I'm wondering whether it might be more >> appropriate to use a Google spreadsheet and one of their submission >> forms for the purposes of collectively the data. A little manual >> editing to remove duplicates might make managing this data a little >> more easier. Especially as there are also pages that separately list >> the available SPARQL endpoints and RDF dumps. >> >> I'm sure we could create something much better using Void, etc but >> for >> now, maybe using a slightly better tool would give us a little more >> progress? It'd be a snip to dump out the Google Spreadsheet data >> programmatically too, which'd be another improvement on the current >> situation. >> >> What does everyone else think? >> > Nice Idea! Especially as Google Spreadsheet to RDF is just about > RDFizers for the Google Spreadsheet API :-) Hehe. I have this in my todo (literally). A website that exposes a google spreadsheet as SPARQL endpoint. Internally we use it as UI to quickly create config files et Al. But It will remain in my todo forever...;) Kingsley, this could be sponged. The trick is that the spreadsheet must have an accompanying page/sheet/book with metadata (the NS or explicit URIs for cols). > > Kingsley >> Cheers, >> >> L. >> >> 2009/8/7 Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk>: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> We are planning to produce an updated data cloud diagram based on >>> the >>> dataset information on the esw wiki page: >>> http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics >>> >>> If you have not published your dataset there yet and you would >>> like your >>> dataset to be included, can you please add your dataset there? >>> >>> If you have an entry there for your dataset already, can you >>> please update >>> information about your dataset on the wiki? >>> >>> If you cannot edit the wiki page any more because the recent >>> update of esw >>> wiki editing policy, you can send the information to me or Anja, >>> who is >>> cc'ed. We can update it for you. >>> >>> If you know your friends have dataset on the wiki, but are not on >>> the >>> mailing list, can you please kindly forward this email to them? We >>> would >>> like to get the data cloud as up-to-date as possible. >>> >>> For this release, we will use the above wiki page as the information >>> gathering point. We do apologize if you have published information >>> about >>> your dataset on other web pages and this request would mean extra >>> work for >>> you. >>> >>> Many thanks for your contributions! >>> >>> Kindest regards, >>> >>> Jun >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security >>> System. >>> For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > > > > >
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