- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:44:32 +0000
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: Richard Light <richard@light.demon.co.uk>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On 14 Nov 2009, at 12:44, Hugh Glaser wrote: > Anyone who can differentiate the two Lajos Hanzos in Mobile comms > (both of > whom have been in the same group at Southampton) deserves a medal, > and to > have the fruits of their labours recorded for posterity. > > Mind you, for differentFrom to have any value, the different Things > must > have been given different URIs in the first place. > So we found that it was of limited value to us, as most of our co- > reference > problems came from multiple Things that had been incorrectly given a > single > URI in external sources. That is why we had to republish quite a lot > of > data, minting new URIs ourselves, as our sources were not > distinguishing > lexically similar strings enough. Two very insightful paragraphs. A lot of food for thought in there. Thanks for sharing Hugh. Best, Richard > > But we may be approaching a day when it would be useful. > Anyone got any such RDF they want to point me at? > dbpedia guys, want to start picking up the disambiguation pages? > > Best > Hugh > > On 14/11/2009 10:20, "Richard Light" <richard@light.demon.co.uk> > wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Following on from the excellent Open Data and the Semantic Web >> meeting >> at the London Knowledge Labs yesterday (thank you, Open Knowledge >> Foundation), a thought occurs to me. I don't imagine it's a new one, >> but I would be interested to know what has been done in this >> direction. >> >> Hugh Glaser's sameAs.org site [1] provides a facility for finding >> multiple URIs for the same concept. How about a site which does the >> opposite: indicates where URIs refer to _different_ concepts? >> Obviously, this is only helpful where you might be tempted to assume >> that the concepts are identical, e.g. because the same word or >> phrase is >> used to describe/identify both. >> >> Wikipedia's disambiguation pages are doing this job for human >> readers: >> is there a Linked Data equivalent? >> >> Richard >> >> [1] http://sameas.org/ > >
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