Re: SKOS and Freebase

Thad, linking may be easier with FAST[1] than LCSH. LCSH is 
pre-coordinated, so it has strings like:

Confucianism --China --Rituals.

which won't match any topics outside of the library world. FAST has 
taken LCSH and broken the pre-coordinated topics into separate statements:

Confucianism
China
Rituals

FAST is available as linked data.

kc
[1] http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/

On 10/20/13 6:40 PM, Thad Guidry wrote:
> Tom is correct.
>
> Let's be clear, the data still has to be linked for LCSH concepts. There
> is much work to be done on that front.
>
> I have been continually applying most high level LCSH concepts to
> Freebase manually, but a better interface for human curation and
> aligning and linking the LCSH concepts to Freebase is what is needed
> (but a lot of that could be done with OpenRefine and other automated
> tools).  It would be even more awesome for other folks to bear and share
> that burden and help build or refine the existing tools to help with
> automation.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com
> <mailto:tfmorris@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl
>     <mailto:aisaac@few.vu.nl>> wrote:
>
>         I got messed up with my mail splitting: but I really want to
>         flag that Thad's
>
>             http://lists.w3.org/Archives/__Public/public-vocabs/2013Oct/__0142.html
>             <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2013Oct/0142.html>
>
>         is really awesome.And seems a good case in favour of SKOS data,
>         for all those who want to do something similar but can't handle
>         the poliferation of namespaces.
>
>
>     One caution - that example isn't representative.  Of the 389,668
>     Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) concepts in Freebase,
>     only 7,842 have been linked to an equivalent Freebase topic.  Also
>     the LCSH was  loaded in 2010 and, as far as I'm aware, hasn't been
>     updated since.  I suspect the hierarchy is relatively stable, but
>     the lack of currency is something else to be aware of.
>
>     It demonstrates interesting possibilities, but it isn't useful for
>     much in its current form.
>
>     Tom
>
>
>
>
> --
> -Thad
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