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

2010-05-12 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Bernard, Always good to be discussing things around a common basis. Sorry for the slow reply ­ very intermittent connectivity. On 27/04/2010 16:38, 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

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

2010-05-12 Thread Adrian Walker
Hi Bernard, Hugh and All, left-field The example in which there are three distinct things called Berlin raises an interesting question. The question is, why would it be a good idea to try to make sense of this at the data + ontology level? I ask because, implicit in the attempt lurks the notion

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 on the

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

2010-04-23 Thread Bernard Vatant
Alexander : It would be useful to have a list of currently available mappings to GeoNames. It would be useful not only for people like me who create custom RDF datasets but also for people who want to contribute additional mappings. Seems a good idea Daniel : Re-publish your data with

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