Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Climate statistics

On 3/8/11 8:46 AM, Ruben Navarro-Piris wrote:
> Hi!

FYI to LOD community:

Kingsley
>
> I'm looking for open statistical weather information. I checked 
> dbpedia and found a set of relationships in the form 
> <month_code>(High|Low|Mean)(F|C) 
> [e.g.http://dbpedia.org/property/yearHighF]. This relations are barely 
> usefull because of following problems:
> - non-deterministic: (e.g. in http://dbpedia.org/resource/Los_Angeles 
> <http://dbpedia.org/page/Los_Angeles>) april Rain Days 
> (http://dbpedia.org/property/aprRainDays) has two values as domain (2 
> & 3), both of them integer. Should be one single double (or float).
> - bad definition: the definition of the properties is practicaly none, 
> e.g http://dbpedia.org/property/aprHighF: just an incomplete label 
> (apr High F, should contain, at least, April), an the type (just 
> rdf:Property). no climatic reference done (no ontology, no 
> superproperty, not even defined in label or unexisting description)
>
> I'm looking also for other possible sources (with not much effort :( 
> ). Does someone know such a source? (I read something about a Climate 
> Cloud Initiative, but cannot find anything about it :S).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Ruben
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