- From: Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:47:16 +0100
- To: Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
Hi, The announcement of that the Guardian has begun cataloguing other identifiers (e.g. ISBN, Musicbrainz) within its API [1] is a nice illustration that the importance of cross-linking between datasets is starting to become more generally accepted. Setting aside the debate about what constitutes "linked data", I think its important that this community tracks these various initiatives to help explore the trade-offs between different approaches, as well as to build bridges with the wider developer community. A great project would be for someone to produce a Linked Data wrapper for the Guardian API, that allows linking *in* to their data, based on ISBNs and MusicBrainz ids. Its on my TODO list, but then so is a lot of other stuff ;) If we look back a few months we can see signs of the importance of cross-linking appearing in other projects. Google Refine (nee Freebase Gridworks) has the notion of a "reconcilication service" that is used to build and set links [2]. Yahoo meanwhile have their "concordance" service [3, 4] which is basically a sameAs.org service for building cross-links between geo data. Again, it would be interesting to build bridges between different communities by showing how one can achieve the same effects with Linked Data, as well as integrating Linked Data into those services by providing gateways services, e.g. implementing the same API but backed by RDF. This is what I did for the Gridworks, but the same could be extended to other services. Cheers, L. [1]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/linked-data-open-platform [2]. http://www.ldodds.com/blog/2010/08/gridworks-reconciliation-api-implementation/ [3]. http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/04/05/yahoos-new-geo-concordance-a-geographic-rosetta-stone/ [4]. http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/api-reference.html#api-concordance -- Leigh Dodds Programme Manager, Talis Platform Talis leigh.dodds@talis.com http://www.talis.com
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