Re: ANN: sameas.org

Hi all,

A similar system (for Object Coreference): 
http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/ObjectCoref/


The "Core" coreference is based on owl:sameAs and IFP, and the "Extension" is based on label/local name and ranking strategy.

It provides evidence for coreference (owl:sameAs triples, IFP property values, and in the case of "extension", label/local name as well as similarity).

Best regards,

Yuzhong Qu

> Hugh, Ian,
> 
> Great work -- simple, visually attractive, does what it says on the  
> tin. A pleasure to use.
> 
> Question: What can you say about the provenance of the sameAs data?  
> The about page doesn't reveal much about this. This is sort of  
> important to know before we can decide where and how to use the  
> service -- anything that helps me judging the quality of the data  
> would be useful. Is it hand-curated, does it contain wild triples from  
> the Web, can it be spammed etc.
> 
> Comments about the RDF output.
> 
> The general RDF graph has the shape
>   <U1> owl:sameAs <U1>, <U2>, <U3>, <U4> .
> 
> I think it would be pretty cool to make it
>   <#this> owl:sameAs <U1>, <U2>, <U3>, <U4> .
> 
> That way, I could add a nice triple to my FOAF file:
> 
>   <#cygri> owl:sameAs
>       <http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri#this 
> > .
> 
> (Okay, I like this mostly because of the recursive cleverness of the  
> idea. In reality, an rdfs:seeAlso would probably do just fine. But  
> isn't owl:sameAs sooo much sexier?)
> 
> I think the RDF output could do with some extra triples. First, a  
> meaningful dc:title for the document URI would be quite nice:
> 
>   <http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri 
> >
>       dc:title "Co-references from sameAs.org for foaf.rdf#cygri" .
> 
> Then, a foaf:primaryTopic triple would make several tools (most of all  
> Tabulator) very happy:
> 
>   <http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri 
> >
>       foaf:primaryTopic <http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf#cygri> .
> 
> Furthermore, what about dc:license?
> 
> In the case of /rdf?q=xxx, some nod in the direction of Sindice, e.g.  
> via dc:source pointing to the Sindice RDF result, would be nice.
> 
> You might want to put a higher-resolution logo graphic somewhere, so  
> that people who use your service can display it, similar to how you  
> use the Sindice logo.
> 
> Again, thanks for this service.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> On 3 Jun 2009, at 20:48, Hugh Glaser 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
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Hugh Glaser,  Reader
>>               Dependable Systems & Software Engineering
>>               School of Electronics and Computer Science,
>>               University of Southampton,
>>               Southampton SO17 1BJ
>> Work: +44 (0)23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3045
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>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/hg

>>
>> "If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole  
>> it, and
>> do not put it into practice, then the theory, however good, is of no
>> significance."
>>
>>
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