- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:25:11 +0000
- To: Aldo Bucchi <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
- CC: "digitales-por-chile@googlegroups.com" <digitales-por-chile@googlegroups.com>, rzilleruelo <rzilleruelo@gmail.com>, Daniel Pérez Rada <dperezrada@gmail.com>, Nicolas Dujovne <ndujovne@gmail.com>
Not sure if it helps: It may be that some relief organisations use the UN Locode codes: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/cl.htm We have a Linked Data version of them at for example http://unlocode.rkbexplorer.com/id/CLTLX http://unlocode.rkbexplorer.com/id/CL-ML Probably not sufficient granularity for anything useful, I suppose. And sameas.org doesn't have much co-ref data for that area. Anyway, as always, if anyone wants to use sameas:org as a clearing house to bridge and re-publish such things (or anything else), ping me the equivalence pairs and I will put them in as fast as I can. Best regards in your endeavours. Hugh On 04/03/2010 14:06, "Aldo Bucchi" <aldo.bucchi@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As most of you heard things were a bit shaky down here in Chile. We > have some requests and hope you guys can help. This is a moment to > prove what we always boast about: that Linked Data can solve real > problems. > > Google provides a prople finder service > (http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/) which is right now > centralizing some ( but not all ) of the missing people data. This > service is OK but it lacks some features plus we need to integrate > with other sources to perform analysis and aid our rescue teams / > alleviate families. > > This is serious matter but it is indeed taken a bti lightly by > existing software. ( there is a tradeoff between the amount of > structure you can impose and ease of use in the front-line ). > > What we would love to have is a way to access all feeds from > <http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/> as RDF > > We already have some databases operating on these feeds, but we're > still far away a clean solution because of its loose structure ( take > a look and you'll see what I mean ). > > Who wants to take a shot at this? > > Requirements. > - Take all feeds originating from <http://chilepersonfinder.appspot.com/> > - Generate an initial RDF dump ( big TTL file ) > - Generate Incremental RDF dumps every hour > > The transfromation should do its best guess at the ideal data > structure and try not to loose granularity but shield us a bit from > this feed based model. > > We then take care of downloading this, integrating with other systems, > further processing, geocoding, etc. > > There's a lot of work to do and the more we can outsource, the bettter. > > On Friday ( tomorrow ) there will be the first nation-wide > announcement of our search platform and we expect lots of people to > use our services. So this is something really urgent and really, > really important for those who need it. > > Ah. Volunteers are moving all this data into a Virtuoso instance that > will also have more stuff. It will be available soon at > http://opendata.cl/ so stay tuned. > > We really hope we had something like DBpedia in place by now, it would > make all this much easier. But now is the time. > Guys, the tsunami casualties could have been avoided it was all about > mis-information. > Same goes for relief efforts. They are not optimal and this is all > about data in the end. > > I know you know how valuable data is. But it is now that you can > really make your point! Triple by Triple. > > Thanks! > A
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