Re: What would you do with free pictures of everything on Earth?

Wow, 

awesome work .... 

Are all of your photo's user generated content, or are you attempting to pull them in from places like flickr too ?

/me giggled a bit when I saw the pictures on : 

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/15936/Iran

I wonder how and where I can find the RDFa data ? I "rapper'ing" some of your URLs and I couldn't find any ... could you show an example please :)

Regards, 

Mischa

On 16 Sep 2010, at 17:42, Paul Houle wrote:

> My new site
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> http://ookaboo.com/
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> uses information extraction and other semantic tech to create a photo atlas of the world which is indexed to terms from the semantic web.  Currently topics in Ookaboo,  such as
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> http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/57147/Kandy
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> are linked to terms from the LOD,  such as Dbpedia and Freebase.  I'm currently publishing RDFa metadata -- of course,  I'm very aware that I could be doing a better job in this department.  In addition to the RDFa metadata,  Ookaboo also has an JSON-based API that makes it easy to look up photos related to a linked data term:
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> http://about.ookaboo.com/a/ookaboo_api
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> Anyway,  one of my major priorities is to get people actually using the RDFa data and/or the JSON API -- I'm interested in talking with anybody who can use images to illustrated linked data and I'm willing to make the changes to make things work.  Any comments?
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