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

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On 17 Sep 2010, at 12:58, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> On 9/17/10 5:10 AM, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
>> Wow,
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>> awesome work ....
>> 
>> Are all of your photo's user generated content, or are you attempting to pull them in from places like flickr too ?
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>> /me giggled a bit when I saw the pictures on :
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>> http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/15936/Iran
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>> 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
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> 2. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/ode/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fhttp%2Fookaboo.com%2Fo%2Fpictures%2Ftopic%2F41448%2FIsfahan
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> 3. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttp%2Fookaboo.com%2Fo%2Fpictures%2Ftopic%2F41448%2FIsfahan
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> 4. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fhttp%2Fookaboo.com%2Fo%2Fpictures%2Ftopic%2F41448%2FIsfahan

Nice one Kingsley, I should have figured that you get RDFa for instances of pictures, thanks. 

Mischa


> Kingsley
> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Mischa
>> 
>> On 16 Sep 2010, at 17:42, Paul Houle wrote:
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>>> 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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