- From: Chris Bizer <bizer@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:38:48 +0100
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi all, we have developed a crawler that collects FOAF profiles from the Web and uploads them into Google Base. The profiles that our crawler has uploaded so far are found at: http://base.google.com/base/search?authorid=1107889 It's nice to see how geo coordinates in the profiles get rendered as Google maps: http://base.google.com/base/items?oid=396209429990798149 And it's strange to "own" Tim Berners-Lees profile on Google Base ;-) http://base.google.com/base/items?oid=12665418913991123756 If you want us to upload your profile also, please add it to the FOAF Bulletin Board http://rdfweb.org/topic/FOAFBulletinBoard and it will be included in our next crawler run. If you want to be removed from Google Base, please send us a mail and we will remove you. It's strange that there hasn't been too much discussion in the Semantic Web community about Google base yet. Should we be happy, that Google provides us with a fast repository and a nice search interface? Or should we be critical because a single company is trying to gain a dominant market position by building a single central Web data repository? Should we be happy that Google is promoting the idea of publishing structured information on the Web? Or should we be critical to their (over-)simplification of the RDF data model? All comments are welcome. Cheers, Chris Bizer and Richard Cyganiak -- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin Phone: +49 30 838 54057 Mail: chris@bizer.de Web: www.bizer.de
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