- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:41:07 -0400
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- CC: François Scharffe <francois.scharffe@inria.fr>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, Jerome Euzenat <Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr>
Hugh Glaser wrote: > Hi, > To put it in simple terms for me :-) > Are you after the algorithms we use to identify when two instances are the same? > No, he isn't talking ABox. He is talking TBox (data dictionary). I posted a link about a simple mapper ontology for Google's RDF vocabs that basically prevent the innocent from using those terms and ending up down a swamp (to put things as mildly as possible). See: http://purl.org/NET/googlevocab# UMBEL is about doing this on bigger and broader scales :-) That's always been the purpose of this project since inception. Kingsley > Best > Hugh > > On 11/06/2009 12:57, "François Scharffe" <francois.scharffe@inria.fr> wrote: > > Dear LODers, > > There has been a couple of discussions already on this list on the need > for a vocabulary to represent correspondences between terms of different > vocabularies. We also saw recently various tools (e.g. Silk, ODDlinker) > allowing to automatically interlink datasets given a specification of > what should be linked. > > However, there is currently no common way to publish and share this > information (i.e., not the links but the way to generate them, see [1] > for precision). > > We are setting up an experiment [1] to see if it is possible to provide > useful services from this data. But for that purpose we need your help. > > So this is a call for contribution: we are collecting any specification > of link generator for the LOD graph. > > Of course, do not hesitate to comment on the idea or to tell us if you > want to be involved. > > We promise a report on this by the end of summer (northern hemisphere :). > > Cheers, > François > > [1] http://melinda.inrialpes.fr > > > > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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