- From: Hugh Glaser <hugh@glasers.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:09:25 +0100
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-lod@w3.org
Yeah, the Seme4 data ain't too good either :-) Try Tom (Tom Heath <tom.heath@theodi.org>) at the ODI. On 04/08/2015 17:00, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 8/4/15 11:35 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: >> The ODI (http://theodi.org) has published a research report, >> "Research: Open data means business" >> (http://theodi.org/open-data-means-business), along with a Google >> sheet of Open Data Companies >> (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwxNIaxXSEMLktb-oo1UoYTd5WMPFkRLytRVVBr5OMA). >> >> >> It seemed a nice idea to map the companies and make the data >> accessible as 5 * Open Data at http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com >> >> So we have loaded the company data into a Linked Data store with a >> SPARQL endpoint (http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/sparql/), >> and made the URIs resolve, such as >> http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/id/company/od001 >> >> We have also used the UK postcodes (and OS services) to plot the >> companies on a map: >> http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/services/map/ >> >> There you go. >> This is all a little rough-and-ready, just to see what it looks like, >> and see if anyone wants to use it. If you do, and want any changes, >> please ask. >> >> Actually, if anyone wanted to produce a similar GSheet for other >> places, we could suck that in too. >> >> Best >> Hugh > > Nice work! > > BTW -- how actually handles editing of the original spreadsheet? The > information on OpenLink is really messed up. The ultimate > demonstration of identity and identifiers gone very wrong. Half of the > description is based on OpenLink Financials and the other half > OpenLink Software :( >
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