- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:48:10 +0100
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
- CC: Ian Millard <icm@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you give it a string, it will provide bundles of URIs that correspond to looking up the string at Sindice and processing them at <sameas>. Apart from the obvious use of the service through the web-form, simple URIs can be provided to do lookups: http://sameas.org/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London http://sameas.org/?q=London The following formats are also supported: rdf+xml, text/n3, application/json, text/plain both through content negotiation and also as a specific URI. For example: http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London http://sameas.org/n3?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London http://sameas.org/html?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London http://sameas.org/json?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London http://sameas.org/text?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/London We believe that the Semantic Web and Linked Data need to develop clear, focussed, services that only do one or two things, so that they can be composed and utilised by the more complex services, as well as facilitating re-use. We hope that <sameas> fits into that category, and that Linked Data application builders will find it an appropriate and useful service for the important task of discovering co-referent URIs. In addition, by providing formats oriented towards non-Linked Data application, we hope that the use of Linked Data can be spread even wider. We currently have about 18M URIs, with an average of 3 URIs per bundle. Best Ian Millard and Hugh Glaser -- Hugh Glaser, Reader Dependable Systems & Software Engineering School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ Work: +44 (0)23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3045 Mobile: +44 (0)75 9533 4155, Home: +44 (0)23 8061 5652 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/hg "If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it, and do not put it into practice, then the theory, however good, is of no significance."
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