Re: [lod2] World Bank Linked Data

On 3/16/12 9:19 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> Hi Sarven,
> That's great.
> I have added your owl:sameAs links to sameAs.org
> (I read your Terms of Use, which seemed to a allow it, but if you want I can remove them.)
> (http://sameas.org/?uri=http://worldbank.270a.info/classification/country/AD)
> Really gives a sense of the linkage in the LD cloud on countries.
>
> I think it is worth reminding people of a previous word of warning I raised last year.
> The country links (and maybe others) are still wrong in dbpedia _ this relates to the assertion of the nytimes data.
> So people should be aware that if they Follow Your Nose from
> http://worldbank.270a.info/classification/country/AD
> via your sameAs to
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Andorra
> and then follow the sameAs links there, they will end up at
> http://data.nytimes.com/6156243861971791401, which is
> "La Paz (Bolivia)".
> I actually suspect that this means that you can Follow Your Nose to get most countries of the world the same, bouncing backwards and forwards between NYT and dbpedia, but haven't investigated!*
> The dbpedia people know about it, and do intend to fix it, but at the moment you can't trust their sameAs links.

Hugh,

If you could provide a list of bad sameAs links, I'll just have them 
deleted once and for all. As I've stated in the past, the NY Times data 
shouldn't have been in the main DBpedia graph. Named Graph partitioning 
doesn't adversely affect Linked Data publishing.

KIngsley
>
> Best
> Hugh
>
> PS, I think this will bounce from the LOD2 list, but if someone wants to forward it that's fine.
>
> * Well maybe not, but there are some interesting clusters.
> Eg a quick FYN gives
> http://worldbank.270a.info/classification/country/AD
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Andorra
> http://data.nytimes.com/6156243861971791401
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/La_Paz
> http://data.nytimes.com/N12815263265301573211
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gros_Morne_National_Park
>
> On 16 Mar 2012, at 11:33, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>
>> On 3/16/12 12:29 AM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
>>> On 12-02-29 08:53 AM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
>>>> http://worldbank.270a.info/
>>> For those still interested in this WBLD stuff, I've made a lot of updates. Boring stuff aside, I've added three newly released financial datasets, dumps for all the data, and a spanking new logo!
>>>
>>>  From here on end, I'll announce updates on the website, or elsewhere on the InterWebs. You can also ping me.
>>>
>>> And now, I will go catch several big zeds followed with several small zeds.
>>>
>>> -Sarven
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>> Great stuff!
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