Re: Given a university's name, retrieve URL for university's home page.

On 14/05/2013, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd actually encourage you to use other services, rather than just querying
> DBPedia as a single source of truth.
>
> Why not make use of a service like sameas.org to locate candidates:
> http://sameas.org/html?q=Cambridge+University&x=-1007&y=-244
>
> ... and crawl those/interrogate various data sets via SPARQL to find
> instances of a specific University type?
>
>
> Alternatively, try Freebase's disambiguation control as a good starting
> point - I find it more accurate than dbpedia/wikipedia for searching for
> the right entity/kind of thing.
>
> Demo:
> http://www.freebase.com/ => Enter "Cambridge University", get the top
> result of "University of Cambridge", which is a University.
>
> Widget:
> https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/search-widget
>
> You can query freebase via MQL, a javascript flavoured graph query
> language, or RDF serialisations of the data (http://basekb.com/ ? I'm sure
> there are lots of others too).
>
> Sure, it's not all pure semantic web tooling, but its pretty close - and I
> bet there's more interesting problems to solve after disambiguation of
> entities :)

Agreed. Now we're cooking! Thanks :)

Sam

Received on Monday, 13 May 2013 23:49:17 UTC