- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:57:35 +0100
- To: Georgi Kobilarov <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>
- Cc: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>, dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org
On 12/2/09 13:45, Georgi Kobilarov wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > It works with HTTP GET as well, see the web-service descriptions at [1] > and [2] (scroll down a bit). > > > [1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx?op=KeywordSearch > [2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx?op=PrefixSearch > > Cheers, > Georgi > > -- > Georgi Kobilarov > Freie Universität Berlin > www.georgikobilarov.com > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Matthias Samwald [mailto:samwald@gmx.at] >> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:13 PM >> To: Georgi Kobilarov; dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net; > public- >> lod@w3.org; semantic-web@w3.org >> Subject: Re: [ANN] DBpedia Lookup >> >> I see that the web service is implemented with SOAP. As this service >> will >> mainly be used in light-weight web applications where autocompletion > is >> required, a simpler interface would be very helpful (i.e., a > REST-style >> service that works with simple HTTP GET requests). >> >> Cheers, >> Matthias Samwald >> >> DERI Galway, Ireland >> http://deri.ie/ >> >> Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution& Cognition Research, Austria >> http://kli.ac.at/ >> >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> DBpedia provides Linked Data URIs for 2.6 million things. However, > it >>> wasn't always easy in the past for other Linked Data publishers to >> find >>> a DBpedia URI. >>> >>> DBpedia Lookup [1] aims to fill that gap. It provides a service to >> find >>> the most-likely DBpedia URIs for a given keyword. The underlying >>> algorithm ranks DBpedia resources based on their relevance in >> Wikipedia >>> and includes synonyms into the index. >>> >>> Try the terms "Shakespeare", "EU", or "Cambridge" and see for >> yourself >>> if the results you'd expect show up at the top. The result ranking > is >>> different - and supposed to be more useful - than a simple full-text >>> search or SPARQL-Query with embedded regular expression for matching >>> labels. >>> >>> There is a web-service available at [2]. You can use the >> KeywordSearch >>> method for searching full terms (as you see at [1]), and the >>> PrefixSearch method for an autocompletion-style interface such as > the >>> one you see at [3]. The webservice returns a list of resource URIs >> with >>> English abstracts, dbpedia classes and categories. >>> >>> Feel free to use the service as you like. If you plan to use it in a >>> production system or to run a high-load batch process, please drop > me >> a >>> message to let me know. Thanks. >>> >>> I hope that DBpedia Lookup is useful for you, and I'd appreciate any >>> feedback. >>> >>> Many thanks to the semantic web folks at the BBC for their support >> and >>> feedback on the development of DBpedia Lookup. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Georgi >>> >>> >>> [1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org >>> [2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx >>> [3] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/autocomplete.aspx Did you consider using a subset of SPARQL resultset format for the results? (json / xml) ... even if there is not a "real" SPARQL service behind the links? cheers, Dan
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