Re: VIAF SPARQL Endpoint

Ah.
Not really.
Back in July last year, "Hickey,Thom" <hickey@oclc.org> told me I could use the VIAF data from their http://viaf.org/viaf/data.
I simply took it and put it in sameAs.org/store/viaf (and also it appears in the main store).
(As best I recall!)
Sorry.

On 2 Apr 2013, at 19:59, Dimitris Kontokostas <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
 wrote:

> Maybe I am mistaken but in this thread [1] you used data from the dbpedia repo [2] and updated sameas.org links.
> I thought that since you are familiar with the drill you could contribute back the VIAF links to DBpedia, that's all.
> 
> Best,
> Dimtiris
> 
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3393623.JPoARYM6ql%40localhost.localdomain&forum_name=dbpedia-developers
> [2] https://github.com/dbpedia/dbpedia-links 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sorry, I've never done anything around this in Wikipedia.
> Best
> Hugh
> On 25 Mar 2013, at 23:12, Dimitris Kontokostas <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Jeff,
> >
> > Maybe Hugh can help here.
> > He already has the links and has used the repo before.
> >
> > Best,
> > Dimitris
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org> wrote:
> > I believe there is a mechanism to push/pull VIAF links into Wikipedia. I don’t know if those are then available downstream for processes like DBpedia extraction.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Dimitris Kontokostas [mailto:kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 7:03 AM
> > To: Young,Jeff (OR)
> > Cc: Hugh Glaser; Linked Data community
> >
> >
> > Subject: Re: VIAF SPARQL Endpoint
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you all for your replies,
> >
> > I wanted a SPARQL endpoint mainly for linking purposes. However, since the DBpedia links are already there, it would be nice to have them at DBpedia too.
> >
> >
> > DBpedia already has a dedicated repo for external links [1]. It would be great if you could make a pull request and have them included in the next static release.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Dimitris
> >
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/dbpedia/dbpedia-links
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org> wrote:
> >
> > We don't have a SPARQL endpoint available, but the data is available
> > under the ODC-By license: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/
> >
> > The VoID dataset description provides additional details:
> >
> > http://viaf.org/viaf/data
> >
> > In particular, note the cc:useGuidelines which has a clause for "special
> > cases":
> >
> > http://viaf.org/viaf/data/#norms
> >
> > Further details can be found on our Data licenses and attribution page:
> >
> > https://www.oclc.org/data/attribution.en.html
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hugh Glaser [mailto:hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:56 AM
> > To: Dimitris Kontokostas
> > Cc: Linked Data community
> > Subject: Re: VIAF SPARQL Endpoint
> >
> > Ah, you have asked the Open World question :-) So you are unlikely to
> > get a "no" answer.
> >
> > I think it is unlikely - OCLC have been rumoured to be rather litigious
> > in the past about people republishing their data.
> > So people I know have been careful about using it in any way that
> > implies republishing.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you want, but if it is linkage you are after, they
> > have been very cooperative, and have sent me their sameAs data.
> > It is available in its own store at http://sameas.org/store/viaf/ It is
> > also in the main sameAs store (where it links to non-VIAF data), for
> > example:
> > http://sameas.org/html?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/August_Wilhelm_Zu
> > mpt will give all the VIAF URIs for the dbpedia resource.
> >
> > Best
> > Hugh
> >
> > On 20 Mar 2013, at 10:07, Dimitris Kontokostas
> > <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > VIAF [1]  already serves Link Data [1] but I was wondering if there is
> > a public SPARQL endpoint for that.
> > > Maybe hosted elsewhere?
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Dimitris
> > >
> > > [1] http://viaf.org/viaf/data/
> > > [2] http://viaf.org/viaf/7524651/
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dimitris Kontokostas
> > > Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Research Group:
> > > http://aksw.org Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kontokostas Dimitris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dimitris Kontokostas
> > Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
> > Research Group: http://aksw.org
> > Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas
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> -- 
> Dimitris Kontokostas
> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
> Research Group: http://aksw.org
> Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas

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