Hugh, One hypothesis is that the data is not good. The other, being discussed, is that there is not sufficient familiarity with the means by which it can be consumed. 'sufficient familiarity' being both vertical and horizontal. Mixed in is an idea that there may not yet be the right means, which is more or less on two levels, underlying engines, I think most agree are sufficiently there, and on top tools. I think most agree they are not there sufficiently, but I don't think anyone would underestimate the difficulty associated with tooling. One of the things about tooling is that they draw in (funnel in) from broad usage to specific purpose. So that depends very much on what one is trying to do. But I placed my reply after Kingsley's as he references one such application. On 17 April 2010 18:36, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > Danny Ayers wrote: > >> On 16 April 2010 19:29, greg masley <roxymuzick@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >>> What I want to know is does anybody have a method yet to successfully >>> extract data from Wikipedia using dbpedia? If so please email the procedure >>> to greg@masleyassociates.com >>> >>> >> >> That is an easy one, the URIs are similar - you can get the pointer >> from db and get into wikipedia. Then you do your stuff. >> >> I'll let Kingsley explain. >> >> >> > Greg, > > Please add some clarity to your quest. > > DBpedia the project is comprised of: > > 1. Extractors for converting Wikipedia content into Structured Data > represented in a variety of RDF based data representation formats > 2. Live instance with the extracts from #1 loaded into a DBMS that exposes > a SPARQL endpoint (which lets you query over the wire using SPARQL query > language). > > There is a little more, but I need additional clarification from you. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: > http://www.openlinksw.com > Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen> > Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen > > > > > >
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