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

  On 9/17/10 5:10 AM, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
> 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 :)

Paul,

Nice service!

URIBurner views of your stuff.

1. 
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http/ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/41448/Isfahan

2. 
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/ode/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fhttp%2Fookaboo.com%2Fo%2Fpictures%2Ftopic%2F41448%2FIsfahan

3. 
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttp%2Fookaboo.com%2Fo%2Fpictures%2Ftopic%2F41448%2FIsfahan

4. 
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fhttp%2Fookaboo.com%2Fo%2Fpictures%2Ftopic%2F41448%2FIsfahan

Kingsley

>
> Regards,
>
> Mischa
>
> On 16 Sep 2010, at 17:42, Paul Houle wrote:
>
>> My new site
>> http://ookaboo.com/
>> 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
>> http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/57147/Kandy
>> 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:
>> http://about.ookaboo.com/a/ookaboo_api
>> 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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Received on Friday, 17 September 2010 11:59:25 UTC