- From: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:12:44 +0100
- To: "Georgi Kobilarov" <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>, <dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>, <public-lod@w3.org>, <semantic-web@w3.org>
I see that the web service is implemented with SOAP. As this service will mainly be used in light-weight web applications where autocompletion is required, a simpler interface would be very helpful (i.e., a REST-style service that works with simple HTTP GET requests). Cheers, Matthias Samwald DERI Galway, Ireland http://deri.ie/ Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria http://kli.ac.at/ > > Hi all, > > DBpedia provides Linked Data URIs for 2.6 million things. However, it > wasn't always easy in the past for other Linked Data publishers to find > a DBpedia URI. > > DBpedia Lookup [1] aims to fill that gap. It provides a service to find > the most-likely DBpedia URIs for a given keyword. The underlying > algorithm ranks DBpedia resources based on their relevance in Wikipedia > and includes synonyms into the index. > > Try the terms "Shakespeare", "EU", or "Cambridge" and see for yourself > if the results you'd expect show up at the top. The result ranking is > different - and supposed to be more useful - than a simple full-text > search or SPARQL-Query with embedded regular expression for matching > labels. > > There is a web-service available at [2]. You can use the KeywordSearch > method for searching full terms (as you see at [1]), and the > PrefixSearch method for an autocompletion-style interface such as the > one you see at [3]. The webservice returns a list of resource URIs with > English abstracts, dbpedia classes and categories. > > Feel free to use the service as you like. If you plan to use it in a > production system or to run a high-load batch process, please drop me a > message to let me know. Thanks. > > I hope that DBpedia Lookup is useful for you, and I'd appreciate any > feedback. > > Many thanks to the semantic web folks at the BBC for their support and > feedback on the development of DBpedia Lookup. > > > Cheers, > Georgi > > > [1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org > [2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx > [3] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/autocomplete.aspx > > -- > Georgi Kobilarov > Freie Universität Berlin > www.georgikobilarov.com > >
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