Re: ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Daniel O'Connor
> <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Psst, Chris, Tobias - any chance of RDFBookMashup rendering 'owl:sameAs
> > urn:isbn:12434567' ?
> >
> > I might see if I can glue freebase's 1.8 million or so ISBNs onto
> > rdfbookmashup.
>
> It's probably common knowledge, but there's a few scripts here -
> http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DanBri/WikipediaISBNs - for extracting
> isbns from wikipedia dumps. It found about half a million last time I
> tried.
>
>
Ah neat.

The appeal of gluing freebase onto the existing book linked data is because
they've assimilated http://openlibrary.org/ and others - so it's a shiny new
dataset in addition to having wikipedia assimilated.

http://blog.freebase.com/2009/04/14/science-fiction-books/