RDF Classes for generic terms

Hi,

I was a bit frustrated with not having a set of generic URIs I could use
for the dc:subject (amongst others) in the RDF instances I produce.  So,
I've knocked up a quick 100 line PHP script that scrapes the XML export
of wikipedia entries, and returns an RDF Class for any wikipedia term
you request...  For example:

http://www.rdfuri.com/wiki/Semantic_Web
http://www.rdfuri.com/wiki/John_Kerry
http://www.rdfuri.com/wiki/OWL
http://www.rdfuri.com/wiki/Owl
http://www.rdfuri.com/wiki/Cardiff
http://www.rdfuri.com/wiki/Politics

(You can use any wikipedia term at the end of the www.rdfuri.com/wiki/
URL).  At the moment, it's just scraping for the title (in the different
languages) and the categories that have been applied.  My two questions
are: a) is this at all useful (or is there a better alternative), and b)
if it is, what other RDF data could be scraped out of the wiki code for
each entry?

Thanks,

Dan

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Dan Zambonini
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Internet Development and Consultancy

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Received on Monday, 23 August 2004 08:22:38 UTC