- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:48:21 +0000
- To: Barry Norton <barry.norton@ontotext.com>
- CC: Andreas Thalhammer <andreas.thalhammer@sti2.at>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
Well for a start, Freebase seems to have a page for every book and every author of every book, I think.
Well, not "every" of course, but quite a few.
If they got this from the LoC, then that would be 30M+ for the books alone.
On 4 Jun 2012, at 21:30, Barry Norton wrote:
>
> Awesome.
>
> Note that even for geography (e.g. Sheffield, as I found earlier) Freebase, not Geonames as predicted, is used. I wonder what the other claimed 300M entities are, and where/when they appear...
>
> Barry
>
>
> On 04/06/2012 21:21, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>> OK.
>> Not sure what the URI would be to append it to, so it just gives the string, but here it is:
>> http://sameas.org/ggraph/?ggid=06y3r
>> If you know what would be a useful way of using the stick, please tell me.
>>
>> By the way, you have to strip off the last character.
>> The php code is:
>>
>> if (isset($_REQUEST['key'])) {
>> $key = trim($_REQUEST['key']);
>> exec("echo ".escapeshellarg($key)." | ./base64 -d | gunzip", $output);
>> $fbid = substr($output[0], 4);
>> $fburi = "http://rdf.freebase.com/ns$fbid";
>> print("<a href=\"$fburi\">$fburi</a>\n");
>> } elseif (isset($_REQUEST['ggid'])) {
>> $ggid = trim($_REQUEST['ggid']);
>> exec("echo ".escapeshellarg($ggid)." | gzip | ./base64 -e", $output);
>> $gg = substr($output[0], 0, -1);
>> print("$gg\n");
>> }
>>
>> (But some base64 implementations have different flags, such as -D.)
>> (And yes, I could do it all in php, but I couldn't be bothered.)
>>
>> Best
>> Hugh
>>
>> On 4 Jun 2012, at 19:43, Andreas Thalhammer wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Hugh,
>>>
>>> On 06/03/2012 10:25 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>>> Great detective work!
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>> Anyway, as it is Sunday of a holiday weekend:
>>>> http://sameas.org/ggraph/?key=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLQz9U3MKs0LgIAXXSnTQwAAAA
>>> This works like a charm! I think it would also be interesting to have the reverse direction.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
>
>
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