- From: Marc <marc@geonames.org>
- Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:04:31 +0100
- To: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
- CC: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, Richard Newman <r.newman@reading.ac.uk>, "'Karl Dubost'" <karl@w3.org>, "'Damian Steer'" <damian.steer@hp.com>, semantic-web@w3.org, general@simile.mit.edu
> Some further ideas along these lines. What about scraping information > about geograpic places like countries and cities from Wikipedia and > linking the data to geonames (http://www.geonames.org/ontology/)? We are already working on linking wikipedia articles with geonames places. See also this thread in October : http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2006Oct/0148.html Now that you are asking for it, I have released today a first version, which includes the following wikipedia information about Embrun : <wikipediaArticle>http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrun_%28Hautes-Alpes%29</wikipediaArticle> <wikipediaArticle>http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrun</wikipediaArticle> <wikipediaArticle>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrun</wikipediaArticle> <wikipediaArticle>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrun%2C_Hautes-Alpes</wikipediaArticle> <wikipediaArticle>http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrun</wikipediaArticle> <wikipediaArticle>http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrun</wikipediaArticle> Around 100,000 geonames place names now have wikipedia links. > I once read about some pretty sophisticated screen-scraping frameworks As far as I know crawling and screen scraping wikipedia is not considered fair use. Wikimedia software is rather resource intensive and the preferred way is to use the xml download files : http://download.wikipedia.org/ Cheers Marc
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