- From: Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 23:24:26 +0100
- To: public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
On 13/05/2013, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com> wrote: > First of all, keep in mind that while DBPedia is amazing and > astounding, it (a) doesn't have all the data of the known universe, > (b) is not 100% consistent in its use of vocabulary to describe the > universe it does know, and (c) sometimes the vocabulary changes. In > short, your mileage may vary... Indeed. > Now...A simple examination shows that you can get lucky. For example, > the following query will get you a table of all the web site URLs for > the entities it thinks are "universities" > > SELECT ?university ?website > WHERE { ?university <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> > <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/University>. > ?university dbpedia2:website ?website. } > > or http://bit.ly/BigAssSparqlQuery > > You could use such a query as the basis for creating an "instance hub" > style service for disambiguating university URIs and for aggregating > linked data related to these unis, including their websites... Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm afraid I can't see how it addresses any of the three shortcomings I listed. To forestall any misunderstandings, I probably should have clarified in my first email that it is as a *consumer* of data, not as a *provider* of data, that I am attempting to solve the problem described therein. Thanks again, Sam
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