Hello,

mo wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
[...]
> 
> * We can easily get >15000 projects from freebase [1], even along with  
> Wikipedia keys, but which of the multiple keys are the ones used in  
> dbpedia? Is there any fixed rule/heuristics which to use?

What exactly do you mean by "key"? DBpedia URIs correspond to Wikipedia
articles, i.e. http://dbpedia.org/resource/$something contains
information about the object described at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$something. We took care not to change the
Wikpedia article URIs.

I don't know how Freebase handles it. There was some discussion that the
Freebase guys want to publish their data as Linked Data and interlink it
with DBpedia, but as far as I know that has not happened yet. Freebase
does have dumps, which (they claim) can be easily converted to RDF. That
might be a starting point.

> * The dbpedia data on buildings seems richer - but I can't find out  
> how to retrieve ALL architectural projects in dbpedia. I tried [2] 
> athttp://dbpedia.org/sparql 
> , but it stops athttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Beijing_Zoo

There is a limit of 1000 results on the SPARQL endpoint. So either you
have to use limit and offset or you just download the complete YAGO file
and grep for http://dbpedia.org/class/yago/Building102913152. The data
set is called "YAGO classes" and can be downloaded from the DBpedia
download page [1].

> * Also, I find it hard to find out which properties buildings
> typically have in dbpedia. How do you do that? Just inspect lots of
> instances? Any tricks there?

Basically yes. They are available as Linked Data, e.g. you can just call
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Beijing_Zoo in your browser. The available
topics are determined by Wikipedia and in particular the infoboxes. The
Beijing_Zoo page [2] does not have an infobox, so you won't get much
building specific information there. You could watch out for common
Wikipedia infoboxes related to buildings (if those exist) to find
typical properties.

Kind regards,

Jens

[1] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Zoo

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Dipl. Inf. Jens Lehmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage: http://www.jens-lehmann.org
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