iMDB in the linked data cloud? was: Minting URIs is bad?

Speaking of minting URIs, what's the latest in the iMDB LOD space?
Anyone had further discussions with them on this?

Especially in an internal, content management/categorisation context,
I'm interested in using iMDB pages as proxies for identifiers for the
concepts those pages are primarily about -- know what I mean? For
instance, many BBC radio 4 presenters have iMDB pages (e.g. John
Humphrys: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402103/), and so I'd like to use
that page to "tag" BBC content internally. In other words, why reinvent
"John Humphrys"-ness?

Now, we're already knee-deep in using dBpedia in exactly this way, which
allows us to link up our internal linked data cloud to the LOD cloud
when we publish resources publicly -- but the fact is that much of the
value of dBpedia for us comes from its use "behind the scenes" inside
the enterprise. The same would hold true of using iMDB as a
categorisation tool.

In any case, I guess my real question is: with the understanding that
iMDB is NOT "open" data, and so thus couldn't be republished in any way
externally, has anyone put together an iMDB LOD "wrapper" which might be
appropriate for use in the BBC's internal linked data ecosystem?  BTW, I
don't feel unethical about this, frankly, as the result would be more
(HTML) links from the BBC's website to iMDB, no doubt... 

Of course, possibly, we should just use the public Web to lookup iMDB
URLs for concepts -- but then we aren't using our clever semi-automated
categorisation tools to their potential... 

And meanwhile, would be ideal for iMDB to join the LOD cloud for real...


Thoughts?


Best--

--cs

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Received on Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:09:38 UTC