dbpedia wishlist

• From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:57:38 +0100
• To: public-lod@w3.org
• Message-Id: <1242302258.15673.222.camel@ophelia2.g5n.co.uk>

The SPARQL interface is great, but it would be nice if dbpedia provided
a few shortcuts for some simple operations which shouldn't need complex
requests to handle. In particular, what I'd like to see would be:

1. A page that I can post a great big list of dbpedia resource URIs to
and get back an N-Triples file containing just dbprop:redirect triples
for any of those URLs which is a redirect. This would provide a quick
and easy way of fixing my references to dbpedia.

2. A request for <http://dbpedia.org/depiction/%s> should run the
following SPARQL query (or equivalent):

 SELECT ?depiction
 WHERE { 
   <http://dbpedia.org/resource/%s>
     <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/depiction>
       ?depiction
 }

If no results are found, it should return a 404, but if a result is
found, perform a 302 redirect to the depiction found.

-Toby

Received on Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:59:44 UTC