Re: About Finding required predicates

Samad Paydar wrote:
> Hi every one.
>
> I wanted to know what is the best or most popular approach to finding 
> appropriate predicates for publishing data of a special domain?
> For instance when I'm looking for a specific predicate like "teaches", 
> (for instance to say "Jim teaches a course named "Java"), I try to 
> find an ontology which has a property named 'teaches'. I use Swoogle 
> for this reason. Then for the resulting ontologies, I perform SPARQL 
> queries on LOD SPARQL endpoint <http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql> to 
> see if these ontologies (and the required predicate) are used in LOD 
> datasets. Then I choose the ontology which is used most.
> Is there any better approach than this popularity-based ad-hoc approach?
>
> Regards,
> Samad Paydar
>
>

Go to: http://lod.openlinksw.com

Types in: teaches.

The use the faceted navigation to see if you can find entities of type: 
rdf:Property,  associated with the text pattern.

Here's what I found via a quick test:  
http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct/facet.vsp?cmd=load&fsq_id=191132 .



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Received on Tuesday, 6 July 2010 03:46:41 UTC