Hi, I downloaded alternateNames.zip (thanks for the link, Bernard) and ran a few bash/sed/awk commands to generate new links from DBpedia to geonames. I encountered a few minor encoding issues etc., but nothing serious. The new links will be available for download and querying soon.
Cheers, JC On 12 September 2013 23:47, Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 9/12/13 5:06 PM, Bernard Vatant wrote: > > Hi Tom > > Thanks for the pointer, which makes me wonder. > Since Geonames puts a lot of work at building quality links to Wikipedia, > why does not DBpedia simply leverage this work and use those links? > They are available in the RDF, see e.g., > http://sws.geonames.org/207258/about.rdf it contains two (redundant) links. > <gn:wikipediaArticle > rdf:resource="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Stanley"/> > <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mount_Stanley"/> > > The RDF dump of Geonames is not optimal, though (it's the concatenation of > all individual RDF descriptions, hence heavy and verbose). > It is simpler to parse the alternate names file > http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/alternateNames.zip > which contains the wikipedia links as "alternate names" with the "language" > link. Quite ad hoc, but efficient. > > Whichever way, you don't need any fine-tuned matching algorithm, just > harvest 400,000 triples that are already there. > > > +1 > > We should factor this into the next DBpedia update. All we need to do is > make a dataset as described above. The upside is worth it. > > Kingsley > > > Best > > Bernard > > > > 2013/9/12 Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> >> >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bernard Vatant >> <bernard.vat...@mondeca.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Whatever the method, features which have been for long ago in Geonames >>> are not linked from DBpedia, although Geonames has had a Wikipedia/DBpedia >>> link for ages in its description. >>> Example : http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mount_Stanley vs >>> http://sws.geonames.org/207258/ >> >> >> Those two things have different names "Mount" vs "Mont" (does geonames >> nave multilingual support?) so it's probably doing simplistic name matching. >> >> The config files for mountains is here if you want to improve it: >> >> >> https://sourceforge.net/p/dbpedia/dbpedia/ci/default/tree/external_datasets/Geonames/dbpedia-geonames-mountain.xml >> >> Tom >> > > > > -- > Bernard Vatant > Vocabularies & Data Engineering > Tel : + 33 (0)9 71 48 84 59 > Skype : bernard.vatant > Blog : the wheel and the hub > Linked Open Vocabularies : lov.okfn.org > -------------------------------------------------------- > Mondeca > 3 cité Nollez 75018 Paris, France > www.mondeca.com > Follow us on Twitter : @mondecanews > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Get an overview of Mondeca's Smart Content Factory at SIIA London > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: > 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT > 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT > 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: > 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT > 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT > 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
