Re: W3C Linked Data Community Directory

On 11/28/11 2:23 PM, Brand Niemann wrote:
> Actually, it imports into Excel nicely.

Ah! Beat me to it!

Did you import the RDF resource directly?

Kingsley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brand Niemann [mailto:bniemann@cox.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:50 PM
> To: 'David Wood'; 'Gannon Dick'
> Cc: team-gld-chairs@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org; 'eGov IG (Public)'
> Subject: RE: W3C Linked Data Community Directory
>
> David, Is this available in CSV or Excel? Thanks, Brand
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wood [mailto:david@3roundstones.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:34 PM
> To: Gannon Dick
> Cc: team-gld-chairs@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org community; eGov IG (Public)
> Subject: Re: W3C Linked Data Community Directory
>
> Hi all,
>
> The contents of the Community Directory are already available in RDF.  There
> is a "Download the bulk RDF" link on the front page that leads to:
>    http://dir.w3.org/directory.rdf
>
> That RDF is dynamically queried when the URL is resolved and is always up to
> date.
>
> Apologies if others have already pointed this out.  Gannon's message was
> caught in my spam trap.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
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> On Nov 11, 2011, at 15:42, Gannon Dick wrote:
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>> I encoded the Community Directory (30 Members) on a spreadsheet and
> converted to RDF/XML[1].  The app is the index of this URL[2].  It is a
> transform of the RDF/XML to XHTML Strict 1.0.  The GRDDL of the XHTML (head)
> is also available[3], as well as a csv version of the spreadsheet[4].
>> There is a singlet example in RDF[5] and a Graph[6]
>>
>>
>> This was before I RTFM and found out that Callimachus uses a custom
> RDFa+XHTML, naturally.  I did make one hard wired adjustment to the
> RDFa+XHTML
> Schema and that was a fixed "target" attribute which makes all links open in
> a new window ... tabbed browsing was not available at the time the spec was
> finalized.  I validated with Xerces and XSLT'ed with Saxon.  All the source
> files are available here[7].
>>
>> The data sources are: LOC (ID and LCSH), The National Atlas (US
>> Counties),
> USGS Earth Explorer (Int'l Subdivisions), Ordinance Survey (UK Counties), US
> Census (US Counties), UN LOCODES Countries + Subdivisions, and Wikipedia to
> resolve UN LOCODE problems.
>> The main app has a 1) a Organization Nickname, 2) A link to the LOC
> Subject Heading (Europe and North America at this time).  The LCSH supplies
> broader terms. 3) A link to the narrowest available LOC Vocabulary Encoding,
> which you can follow up to the LCSH 4) Leftovers (the LOC has a lot of work
> to do), down to the narrowest Subdivision defined by UN LOCODES (who also
> have a lot of work to do, and needs a better definition of "peer").
>> Notice the Nicknames are sorted by LOC ID, and that extension down to
> Street Addresses would be a little pointless since no "knowledge" would
> aggregate.
>> Consider this a contribution from the non-Working Group eGov IG (and
>> have
> fun).
>> --Gannon
>>
>> [1] http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/gld-cd.rdf
>>
>> [2] http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/ or
> http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/gld-cd.html
>> [3]  http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/gld-cd.html.rdf
>> [4]  http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/gld-cd.csv
>> [5]  http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/gld-cd-eg.rdf
>> [6]  http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/gld-cd-eg.png
>> [7]  http://www.rustprivacy.org/2011/phase/gld/cd/gld-cd.zip
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Gannon Dick<gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
>> To: "team-gld-chairs@w3.org"<team-gld-chairs@w3.org>
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:04 PM
>> Subject: Fw: W3C Linked Data Community Directory
>>
>> Let me know if you want to add a full text regional identifier e.g.
>>
>> Nickname = 3 Round Stones Inc.
>> ID = [North America].[United States].[Virginia].[Spotsylvania County]
>>
>> It will come in real handy when there are thousands of entries; and
>> the
> time to do it is when there are 29 entries since the maintenance is pretty
> easy.
>> --Gannon
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>> From: David Wood<david@3roundstones.com>
>> To: "public-lod@w3.org community"<public-lod@w3.org>
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2:58 PM
>> Subject: W3C Linked Data Community Directory
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The W3C has launched a community directory of eGov projects and suppliers:
>>    http://dir.w3.org
>>
>> The directory is built on Callimachus [1], a Linked Data management
> system.  A SPARQL endpoint is available to authenticated users.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> [1] Callimachus: http://callimachusproject.org
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