Hi Jona
Good news! Please ping me when the new data are available through the
SPARQL endpoint!
Best
Bernard
2013/9/19 Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt <j...@sahnwaldt.de>
> 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
> >>
> >
> >
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