Re: Geonames enters the Semantic Web

I do consult, but not via Mondeca. Bernard is from Mondeca, I am not.
Marc

Ruoff, Karl wrote:

>Thanks Marc... Are you strictly a volunteer on this project or do you
>also consult via Mondeca?
>V/r,
>Karl Ruoff
>Architecture & Information Services / Geospatial Intelligence 
>Northrop Grumman IT-TASC
>314-259-7836
>karl.ruoff@ngc.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc [mailto:marc@geonames.org] 
>Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:15 AM
>To: Ruoff, Karl
>Cc: Bernard vatant; Semantic Web
>Subject: Re: Geonames enters the Semantic Web
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>Hi Karl
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>You can download the geonames database from here : 
>http://www.geonames.org/export/
>Web service client source code is available here : 
>http://www.geonames.org/source-code/
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>For geonames specific questions not related with the Semantic Web you
>can contact me directly at marc@geonames.org There is also a forum :
>http://forum.geonames.org  and a mailing list : 
>http://groups.google.com/group/geonames
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>Regards
>
>Marc
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>Ruoff, Karl wrote:
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>>Excellent! Can we obtain this software for use within our own
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>enterprise?
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>>V/r,
>>Karl Ruoff
>>Enterprise Engineering
>>Architecture & Information Services / Geospatial Intelligence Northrop 
>>Grumman IT-TASC
>>314-259-7836
>>karl.ruoff@ngc.com
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] 
>>On Behalf Of Bernard vatant
>>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:16 PM
>>To: Semantic Web
>>Cc: Marc
>>Subject: Geonames enters the Semantic Web
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>>Hello all
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>>I'm very pleased to announce that, through a quick and efficient
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>collaboration with Marc (in cc), the 6 million and growing geographical
>features in the data base of Geonames [1] are now described by a OWL
>ontology [2], and the RDF description of each instance, including names,
>type, of course geolocation elements, is now available through Geonames
>Webservice,  adding to an already impressive pack of  services [3].
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>>The ontology is very simple, and leverage elements of the wgs84_pos
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>vocabulary [4]. The feature types are described using a simple SKOS
>vocabulary, which has been embedded in the OWL ontology.
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>>If you add that, thanks to Google Maps API, the geonames features can
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>be created and edited through a wiki-like interface [5], this as Web 2.0
>as can be.
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>>Comments welcome, either here or in the Geonames forum [6]
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>>Bernard
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>>[1] http://www.geonames.org
>>[2] http://www.geonames.org/ontology/
>>[3] http://www.geonames.org/export/
>>[4] http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/#vocabulary
>>[5] http://www.geonames.org/recent-changes/
>>[6] http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/156.page
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