Re: ANN: sameas.org

Cool Hugh :-) great ajaxi thing as well.
if you dont do this already it might make sense to also add

from your page yu say

"There is currently no a service to enable arbitrary contribution to
the contents. If you have significant data you would be prepared to
give us, then please conact us at the email below. On the other hand,
if you have time to help us provide such services, then please feel
free to offer your help. "

The easiest thing possible is certainly do these kind of queries

http://sindice.com/search?q=owl%3AsameAs&qv=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FLondon&qt=ifp

and integrate the results (but there is postprocessing to do on your
side) . While you do open yourself to spam in this way, you can always
blaime us for not filtering it out in case :-)

Cheers
Giovanni


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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