ANN: DBpedia 3.4 released

2009-11-11 Thread Chris Bizer
Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.4. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from September 2009. The new DBpedia data set describes more than 2.9 million things, including 282,000 persons, 339,000 places, 88,000 music albums, 44,000 films, 15,000 video games,

Pre-release: New GoodRelations Annotator - Simple RDFa snippets for copy-and-paste

2009-11-11 Thread Martin Hepp (UniBW)
Dear all: We are in the process of finalizing an improved version of the GoodRelations Annotator Tool. With that tool, any company can quickly create a rich description of its line of business, opening hours, payment options, and the like. In the past, publishing the resulting RDF data proved

Re: Need help mapping two letter country code to URI

2009-11-11 Thread Hugh Glaser
Absolutement. More authoritative sources would be great – in fact dbpedia may be as good as it gets, as it often is (at least for the moment). As far as sameAs .org is concerned, I only (aim to, but sometimes I fail) include URIs that resolve to RDF. And of course, often need others to have

Re: W3C Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios

2009-11-11 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: Hi Rigo, Pling, +cc: SocialWeb XG Position Papers: http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/papers/ On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Rigo Wenning r...@w3.org wrote: Dear all, as you may know, there are many issues around

Re: Need help mapping two letter country code to URI

2009-11-11 Thread Ross Singer
Coincidentally, I'm 2/3 of the way through providing the easily mappable MARC codes lists to RDF. Here are Geographic Area Codes: http://purl.org/NET/marccodes/gacs/n-usa#location (Use the values here: http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacshome.html) And Languages: