ANN: sameas.org

We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with
help finding URIs.

It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back
URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it.
In addition, by using sindice.com, if you give it a string, it will provide
bundles of URIs that correspond to looking up the string at Sindice and
processing them at <sameas>.

Apart from the obvious use of the service through the web-form, simple URIs
can be provided to do lookups:
http://sameas.org/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London
http://sameas.org/?q=London
The following formats are also supported:
rdf+xml, text/n3, application/json, text/plain
both through content negotiation and also as a specific URI.
For example:
http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London
http://sameas.org/n3?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London
http://sameas.org/html?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London
http://sameas.org/json?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London
http://sameas.org/text?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London

We believe that the Semantic Web and Linked Data need to develop clear,
focussed, services that only do one or two things, so that they can be
composed and utilised by the more complex services, as well as facilitating
re-use.
We hope that <sameas> fits into that category, and that Linked Data
application builders will find it an appropriate and useful service for the
important task of discovering co-referent URIs.
In addition, by providing formats oriented towards non-Linked Data
application, we hope that the use of Linked Data can be spread even wider.

We currently have about 18M URIs, with an average of 3 URIs per bundle.

Best

Ian Millard and Hugh Glaser


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do not put it into practice, then the theory, however good, is of no
significance."

Received on Wednesday, 3 June 2009 19:49:16 UTC