Re: ANN: Uberblic.org - Integrating the Web of Data

From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> · Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:38:11 -0500

Georgi Kobilarov wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We are glad to announce the release of uberblic.org, a free integration
> service for the web of data. 
>
> Uberblic imports structured data from sources like Wikipedia, Geonames,
> DBpedia, and the BBC, and integrates those sources into a single, coherent
> data set. It provides a single point of access to integrated web data, and
> we will continue to import many more open data sources soon.
>
> Our Uberblic Platform imports and processes live data, providing e.g.
> real-time updates of Wikipedia infobox changes, and will enable users of our
> mapping editor to extend data schema mappings interactively. The platform
> processes these mapping changes and pushes the resulting data updates
> immediately  into our data repository.
>
> Please find more details about the project on http://uberblic.org and find
> the announcement with screencast on our blog:
> http://uberblic.org/2010/01/uberblic-release/
>
> For discussion about the project, please refer to our uberblic-discussion
> mailing list: 
> http://lists.uberblic.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
>
> We are very excited about this first release, and are very looking forward
> to your feedback!
>
> Many thanks to our partners at Talis for their great support and for hosting
> the SPARQL endpoint for Uberblic on their Talis Platform.
>
> Best regards,
> Georgi
>
> --
> Georgi Kobilarov
> Uberblic Labs Berlin
> www.georgikobilarov.com
>
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Quick question.

I've lookup a URI using your service:
http://uberblic.org/resource/a8c82706-e855-490c-96eb-6061b6d0c3c8#thing

I can't seem to find an graph level relationships with its original 
sources (DBpedia, BBC etc.) . Is this me, your solution design and 
implementation choices, or something else?

At the very least, I would expect to be able to navigate from your 
linked data space to other linked data spaces, starting with your URIs.

Also, will you be using <link/> in our HTML pages (re. auto-discovery 
patterns) or is it strictly content negotiation? Ditto RDFa within your 
HTML pages etc..

-- 

Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	      
President & CEO 
OpenLink Software     
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
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