Re: Updated LOD Cloud Diagram - First draft and last feedback. - sameAs.org

2014-08-15 Thread Christian Bizer
Hi Hugh, thank you very much for your positive feedback. Yes, we decided not to include sameAs.org as we understand it to be more a service that works on top of the LOD cloud than an actual dataset that contributes additional data to the cloud. We hope that this interpretation is OK with you

Re: Updated LOD Cloud Diagram - First draft and last feedback. - sameAs.org

2014-08-15 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi Chris, On 15 Aug 2014, at 11:15, Christian Bizer ch...@bizer.de wrote: Hi Hugh, thank you very much for your positive feedback. Richly deserved. Yes, we decided not to include sameAs.org as we understand it to be more a service that works on top of the LOD cloud than an actual dataset

sameAs.org The LOD Cloud Diagram - advice please

2014-07-25 Thread Hugh Glaser
So sameAs.org never appears in any of this stuff. That’s deliberate. The whole idea of it is that it doesn’t add to the plethora of URIs by generating new ones. But it seems that people do find it useful - I get emails from people about it, especially when it does strange things :-) sameAs.org

Re: sameAs.org The LOD Cloud Diagram - advice please

2014-07-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 7/25/14 3:02 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote: So sameAs.org never appears in any of this stuff. That’s deliberate. The whole idea of it is that it doesn’t add to the plethora of URIs by generating new ones. But it seems that people do find it useful - I get emails from people about it, especially

sameAs.org license - was Re: Linked data sets for evaluating interlinking?

2013-08-27 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Ghislain. Sorry, no SPARQL endpoint, as it isn't an RDF store. With respect to a license, it is more difficult. This may be a longer answer than you were expecting. :-) (Firstly, please understand that I'm not very good with this license stuff.) When I started sameAs.org, it only had

Re: sameAs.org milestone

2012-02-10 Thread Jordanous, Anna
taken? My understanding was that alternatives to sameAs should be used unless there is absolutely no doubt that the two Things are in fact exactly the same entity. The vast amount of data in sameas.org suggests to me, though, that common practice is tending towards using (a slightly weaker

sameAs.org milestone

2012-02-08 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi. With the addition of Freebase and British Library data (thank you), it is exciting to tell you that http://sameas.org has now topped 100M URIs. I am always happy to get more data, and can bring up individual sub-stores for people who want them. So please feel free to ask me to add your

ANN: sameAs.org over 50M

2011-10-24 Thread Hugh Glaser
The number of URIs in http://sameas.org/ has been relatively static at just over 48M for a long time. But with the recent addition of new sets of links from Freebase, I thought it would be nice to tell you that it now has well over 50 million and climbing. Of course, size is not everything

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-05-12 Thread Hugh Glaser
the problems you raise are valid. Just a short response. In some sense I consider sameas.org http://sameas.org to be a discovery service. Indeed, so do I. The known issue is the overload of owl:sameAs, but you have an excellent presentation today of Pat Hayes and Harry Halpin just coming ... (you

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-05-12 Thread Adrian Walker
Adrian Walker Reengineering On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Bernard Vatant bernard.vat...@mondeca.com wrote: Hi Hugh 2010/4/27 Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Thanks Bernard. Yes, I think the problems you raise are valid. Just a short response. In some sense I consider sameas.org

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-27 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi Hugh 2010/4/27 Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Thanks Bernard. Yes, I think the problems you raise are valid. Just a short response. In some sense I consider sameas.org to be a discovery service. Indeed, so do I. The known issue is the overload of owl:sameAs, but you have an excellent

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-26 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Bernard. Yes, I think the problems you raise are valid. Just a short response. In some sense I consider sameas.org to be a discovery service. This is in contrast to a service that might be called something more definitive. So I have taken quite a liberal view of what I will accept

Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Bernard Vatant
with rdfs:seeAlso http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsws.geonames.org%2F2078025%2Fperhaps? This seems like a good idea. Considering that geonames.org cannot dedicate (m)any resources to LOD mappings, those can be deferred to external services such as sameas.org. The sameas.org URI is easy to generate

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
sws.geonames URIs, SPARQL endpoint etc. Bearing in mind that Geonames.org has no dedicated resources for it, who will care of that in a scalable way? What is the business model? Good questions. Volunteers, step forward :) Bernard Hi Bernard, the need to automatically interlink at large

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi Giovanni 2010/4/23 Giovanni Tummarello giovanni.tummare...@deri.org Hi Bernard, the need to automatically interlink at large scale, and give clean, and high performance querable datasets to users is well recognized and supported e.g. also by the new EU funded projects which still cant be

Re: Semantic black holes at sameas.org Re: [GeoNames] LOD mappings

2010-04-23 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
so hang on tight a bit.. we're working on this, just continue publishing high quality data with good entity descriptions (as much as you know about YOUR stuff), and the links will come to you just like that at some point. I promise :) WOW ... rings a bell ...and all these things will be

OS OpenSpace and sameas.org

2009-12-14 Thread John Goodwin
Very early days yet, but started a simple OS OpenSpace map interface for sameas.org. I hope to extend this to all administrative/voting regions in GB. But just to get going: http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/boundaries/constsameas.html John This email is only intended for the person to whom

RE: BBC, Ordnance Survey linked data mesh-up (uses sameas.org)

2009-06-14 Thread John Goodwin
Kingsley Idehen wrote: Pretty cool! Thanks :) I would suggest following (one of options): 1. Use link/ to expose the URIs for Bedford, Birmingham etc.. 2. RDFa in the HTML instead of link/ re. URI exposure 3. Atom/RSS feed that exposes URIs for each place or URIs for RDF docs (info.

Re: Linking back to sameas.org?

2009-06-09 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hugh, Toby Thanks for the follow-up on this, and well, I'm pretty much convinced now that rdfs:seeAlso is the simplest way to achieve the backlink to sameas.org And thinking twice, I'm now also convinced that neither adding any specific semantics to this link nor specifying the class

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-09 Thread Toby Inkster
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 20:48 +0100, Hugh Glaser wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. I wonder if in http://example.com/foo I wrote: #me foaf:based_near _:lewes . _:lewes owl:sameAs http://dbpedia.org/resource

RE: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-09 Thread Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)
Hello Hugh, /me catching up on some much missed reading... Cool service. I saw this in you're exchanges with Richard... http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri dc:title Co-references from sameAs.org for foaf.rdf#cygri . Seems good, goes on the list

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-09 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 04/06/2009 00:54, Richard Cyganiak rich...@cyganiak.de wrote: Many thanks. Hope Ian's mods sort of fit: Hugh, Ian, snip / dc:title Co-references from sameAs.org for foaf.rdf#cygri . Done. Then, a foaf:primaryTopic triple would make several tools (most of all Tabulator) very happy

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-08 Thread Rob Styles
This is the license you're looking for... http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/ It's a public-domain dedication and license that says anyone is free to do as they wish with the data. If you're feeling more brand-conscious then CC0 also has the same effect and works for data,

Linking back to sameas.org?

2009-06-08 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hugh, and all Looking at the very cool stuff at sameas.org, comes to my mind that at least, my old dream of hubjects has come true ... Richard now points his finger at the moon, by asking What is the semantics of a sameas.org URI? Basically I would say none or as closer to none as possible

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Berners-Lee
Agreed. Go for CC0. Disclaimers are an orthogonal issue I *hope*. On 2009-06 -08, at 00:13, Marc Wick wrote: Added some words in the about - any advice as to what the licence might be? I guess there is some cc licence that corresponds to: The information is provided as-is and without any

Re: Linking back to sameas.org?

2009-06-08 Thread Toby A Inkster
On 8 Jun 2009, at 12:22, Bernard Vatant wrote: http://sameas.org/html?uri=http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/fr provides 16 equivalent URIs (including the original one). At http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/fr I've gathered painfully only 10 of those :-) But now that sameas.org is alive, why should I

Re: Linking back to sameas.org?

2009-06-08 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 08/06/2009 20:59, Toby A Inkster t...@g5n.co.uk wrote: On 8 Jun 2009, at 12:22, Bernard Vatant wrote: http://sameas.org/html?uri=http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/fr provides 16 equivalent URIs (including the original one). At http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/fr I've gathered painfully only 10

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-08 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thank you all. Very helpful. On 08/06/2009 12:45, Tim Berners-Lee ti...@w3.org wrote: Agreed. Go for CC0. Disclaimers are an orthogonal issue I *hope*. On 2009-06 -08, at 00:13, Marc Wick wrote: Added some words in the about - any advice as to what the licence might be? I guess

Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-07 Thread Hugh Glaser
I hate to continue the licence issue; I really don't care, but it seems I should have something. And the same is true of my other sites. And maybe people can help. The Open Database Licence puts constraints on users, such as: Include a copy of this Licence And as far as I can see, the most

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-07 Thread Nathan Yergler
Perhaps you're looking for CC0, a waiver (as opposed to a license) of copyright and neighboring rights? http://creativecommons.org/license/zero and http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Nathan On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: I hate to continue

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-06 Thread richard . hancock
Chris, On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM, richard.hanc...@3kbo.com wrote: Hi Azamat, one thing I would like to be able to do is enter a search query similar to the following: Kiwi a bird using the a to indicate rdf:type and to substitute for bird the classes known to represent that

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-06 Thread Azamat
Abdoullaev - Original Message - From: richard.hanc...@3kbo.com To: Azamat abd...@cytanet.com.cy Cc: 'SW-forum' semantic-...@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org; Chris Wallace chris.wall...@uwe.ac.uk Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 2:46 AM Subject: Re: sameas.org Hi Azamat, one thing I would

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-06 Thread Sherman Monroe
Richard, thanks for the link to your presentation, it helped explain how razorbase works and made navigating to the desired result easier. Thanks, so glad to hear it was useful. One suggestion re the slides, since the kiwi is not an Australian bird you may want to change slide 27 to

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-06 Thread Sherman Monroe
Chris, Looks very good - I'll give it a spin. I'd be interested to know what algorithm is used here to bring the bird meaning to the top of the results. Cool, thanks. As far as the algorithm [1], it's Entity Rank and co-frequencies, explained in depth in this paper by Orri Erling [2]. I

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-05 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 05/06/2009 04:09, Giovanni Tummarello g.tummare...@gmail.com wrote: a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon and lots of wordnet links to a juggle of plumbing but no juice.  No sign of http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kiwi however Ah. We only

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Ferne
On 4 Jun 2009, at 23:47, Hugh Glaser wrote: Added some words in the about - any advice as to what the licence might be? I guess there is some cc licence that corresponds to: The information is provided as-is and without any warranty. It is freely available for any use as you wish. I would

RE: sameas.org

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Wallace
Hugh Glaser wrote On 05/06/2009 04:09, Giovanni Tummarello g.tummare...@gmail.com wrote: a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon and lots of wordnet links to a juggle of plumbing but no juice. No sign of http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kiwi however

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-05 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Chris Wallace wrote: Hugh Glaser wrote On 05/06/2009 04:09, Giovanni Tummarello g.tummare...@gmail.com wrote: a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon and lots of wordnet links to a juggle of plumbing but no juice. No sign of

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-05 Thread Azamat
public-lod@w3.org; Ian Millard i...@ecs.soton.ac.uk Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: RE: sameas.org Hugh Glaser wrote On 05/06/2009 04:09, Giovanni Tummarello g.tummare...@gmail.com wrote: a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon and lots

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-05 Thread Sherman Monroe
conventional web behaviour. - not your problem but I note that search via Sindice is rather disappointing - for example http://sameas.org/html?q=Kiwi (a general term for a flightless bird found in New Zealand divided into several species, but also a colloquial expression for a New Zealander

RE: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread John Goodwin
Hugh wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. Great stuff. Are there any plans to provide a way to make feedback on dodgy sameAs relationships we come across? I noticed that Southampton (UK) has a few dodgy ones: http

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Hugh Glaser
had a motive for not fixing Southampton, so that these issues might come out if people were interested; was pretty sure you would notice :-) On 04/06/2009 08:25, John Goodwin john.good...@ordnancesurvey.co.uk wrote: Hugh wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide

RE: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread John Goodwin
Good morning.. Hugh wrote: Even so, I did see things, although I can only recall one other at the moment which comes from a dbpedia-opencyc problem (it's a band thing). Some might argue that the band in question are indeed a torture device ;) Interestingly I noticed that a Dbpedia-Fbase

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Dan Brickley
owl:sameAs http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri#this . (Okay, I like this mostly because of the recursive cleverness of the idea. In reality, an rdfs:seeAlso would probably do just fine. But isn't owl:sameAs sooo much sexier?) The risk here is that sameas.org

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Hugh Glaser
, U4 . That way, I could add a nice triple to my FOAF file: #cygri owl:sameAs http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri#this . (Okay, I like this mostly because of the recursive cleverness of the idea. In reality, an rdfs:seeAlso would probably do just fine

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Hugh Glaser
via Sindice is rather disappointing - for example http://sameas.org/html?q=Kiwi (a general term for a flightless bird found in New Zealand divided into several species, but also a colloquial expression for a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Ian Millard
The following formats are also supported: rdf+xml, text/n3, application/json, text/plain Starting on the HTML search result page and clicking though to the rdf+xml, n3, etc links, the uri query string parameter isn't %-encoded, so fragment identifiers don't get seen by the scripts which

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Toby Inkster
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 00:54 +0100, Richard Cyganiak wrote: The general RDF graph has the shape U1 owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . Oh yes, another thing: saying the above, with OWL reasoning in place is equivalent to saying: U1 owl:sameAs U1, U1, U1, U1 . in a way. For this reason, you

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Dan Brickley
/socialgraph/ eg. for me, http://sameas.org/html?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdanbri.org%2Ffoaf.rdf%23danbrix=9y=1 5 gives: 1.http://danbri.livejournal.com/data/foaf 2.http://danbri.org/foaf#danbri 3.http://danbri.org/foaf.rdf#danbri 4.http://downlode.org/Code/RDF/FOAF/foaf.rdf#danbri 5.http://downlode.org

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Story Henry
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:18, Toby Inkster wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 00:54 +0100, Richard Cyganiak wrote: The general RDF graph has the shape A: U1 owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . Oh yes, another thing: saying the above, with OWL reasoning in place is equivalent to saying: B: U1 owl:sameAs

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread robl
Hugh Glaser wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread robl
Hugh Glaser wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Hugh Glaser
triple to my FOAF file: #cygri owl:sameAs http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri#this . (Okay, I like this mostly because of the recursive cleverness of the idea. In reality, an rdfs:seeAlso would probably do just fine. But isn't owl:sameAs sooo much

Re: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
a New Zealander and a Kiwifruit) throws up a radio station, an animated cartoon and lots of wordnet links to a juggle of plumbing but no juice.  No sign of http://dbpedia.org/resource/Kiwi however Ah. We only look at the first n results from Sindice, and clearly kiwi is a popular name.

ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Hugh Glaser
We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you give it a string

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Danny Ayers
2009/6/3 Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. Great stuff! We believe that the Semantic Web and Linked Data need to develop clear, focussed, services that only do one or two things, so that they can

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you give it a string, it will provide bundles of URIs

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Hugh Glaser
Many thanks, Toby, noted. I think I'll leave that to Ian in the morning; he knows more, and I am also learning the hard way not to correct things late at night with a glass in my hand :-) I appreciate the time to look at it, and if you see anything else please tell me. And thank you to the

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Sherman Monroe
lookups. Thanks, -sherman [1] http://lod.openlinksw.com [2] http://www.slideshare.net/sdmonroe/razorbase-examples-part-2 On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Cyganiak
it would be pretty cool to make it #this owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . That way, I could add a nice triple to my FOAF file: #cygri owl:sameAs http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri#this . (Okay, I like this mostly because of the recursive cleverness

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Hugh Glaser
are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com http://sindice.com , if you give

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Yuzhong Qu
. Comments about the RDF output. The general RDF graph has the shape U1 owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . I think it would be pretty cool to make it #this owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . That way, I could add a nice triple to my FOAF file: #cygri owl:sameAs http://sameas.org/rdf?uri