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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
