Re: The Linked Data-a-thon starts NOW!

Hi Juan,

There is an interesting article in the Journal "Science" this week[1].  Linked Data concentrates on Mechanized Agent to Mechanized Agent interaction with the assumption that Person to Person interaction is the same ... maybe it's not.

Physical data about a region is available - sunshine and weather, for example[2], but you need to have a little geographic pre-filtering (a right join to be exact) so that you do not have to process 500+ million triples just to "discover" the rudimentary administrative framework.

The ISWC is in Bonn, which has sunshine like the rest of North Rhine-Westphalia[3] (within 2 minutes, but check it yourself[4]).  There is an ODS spreadsheet giving the UN/LOCODE entries for North Rhine-Westphalia [5].  These are by definition "internal points" just like the Hotel in Bonn.  The status and function codes are in a PDF available directly from http://unece.org/

--Gannon



[1] http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0929sp_twitter.shtml?sa_campaign=Internal_Ads/AAAS/RSS_News/2011-09-29/
[2] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/workday/
[3] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/de/ISWC2011.pdf
[4] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/de/
[5] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/de/nw/deregions.ods

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From: Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com>