- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 19:40:53 -0400
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "richard.hancock@3kbo.com" <richard.hancock@3kbo.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Kingsley Idehen wrote: > Hugh Glaser wrote: >> An interesting question - should be a classic for Linked Data. >> As I understand it, your primary problem for New Zealand is that >> there is no reliable information about the administrative geography. >> It doesn't help for New Zealand (!), but for the UK you could use the >> Ordnance Survey's, which can be found in RDF via >> http://osdir.com/ml/web.semantic.linking-open-data/2008-05/msg00011.html >> We have made it linked data at os.rkbexplorer.com, with a SPARQL >> endpoint if you want it. >> (If people are doing this sort of thing (if you thought of doing some >> of it yourself), then reusing the OS ontology might be a good idea.) >> >> For the UK, it would be a case of jumping (follow-your-nose) >> backwards and forwards between the os and dbpedia, I suggest, using >> the os to find the inclusion and dbpedia to find the knowledge. >> This afternoon I did a bunch of links between them (the bigger areas >> and towns), to let you have a go if you like, and these can be found >> at our os coreference service (crs) at >> http://os.rkbexplorer.com/crs/ >> >> By the way, if you want an easy way of finding out what URIs might >> tell you what is known about a particular place (or anything), you >> could try our sameAs service at >> http://www.rkbexplorer.com/sameAs/?uri= >> So New Zealand would be >> http://www.rkbexplorer.com/sameAs/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_Zealand >> >> And Wellington >> http://www.rkbexplorer.com/sameAs/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Wellington >> >> and you can follow-your-nose from there. >> > Hugh, > > Assuming you sent this response before mine re. > http://lod.openlinksw.com . How does the following not resolve this > problem: > > 1. Go to http://lod.openlinksw.com > 2. Enter pattern: New Zealand > 3. Use "Type" and/or "Property" to locate what you want > 4. Once found, click on "statistics" link > > Kingsley > I should have added: 5. look at: http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct/facet.vsp?cmd=load&fsq_id=3011 (do use the "retry" button to maximize results) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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