- From: Pipian <pipian@pipian.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:43:14 -0400
- To: John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
- Cc: <public-lod@w3.org>, <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Oct 1, 2009, at 4:51 PM, John Goodwin wrote: > > I've been working on my family tree as linked data in my spare time. > A few sample URIs for anyone interested: > > http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/family/I0243 > http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/family/I0265 > http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/family/F003 > > Birth/death events are linked to places in DBpedia, e.g. > > http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/family/event1918 > > I did the initial conversion with this http://svn.foaf-project.org/foaftown/2009/gedcom/ > . > > Anyone else tried family trees as linked data? Hoping for some long > lost relatives also into RDF so I can connect some nodes (not likely > I know :)). > > John I've fiddled with RDF+Genealogy in the past, but never managed to really get anything off the ground. About the closest I ever got was in assisting with Hilton Campbell with specing up the data model for his (now defunct?) Distributed Family Tree project, which was going to use OWL.[1] As far as I know, no one has really taken RDF with genealogy and run with it though, although I'm always eager to hear about (and possibly help out with) anyone who has anything on it. --Ian Jacobi [1] http://www.dftproject.org/wiki/Data_model
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