Hi Matthias, It works with HTTP GET as well, see the web-service descriptions at [1] and [2] (scroll down a bit).
[1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx?op=KeywordSearch [2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx?op=PrefixSearch Cheers, Georgi -- Georgi Kobilarov Freie Universität Berlin www.georgikobilarov.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Samwald [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:13 PM > To: Georgi Kobilarov; [email protected]; public- > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ANN] DBpedia Lookup > > I see that the web service is implemented with SOAP. As this service > will > mainly be used in light-weight web applications where autocompletion is > required, a simpler interface would be very helpful (i.e., a REST-style > service that works with simple HTTP GET requests). > > Cheers, > Matthias Samwald > > DERI Galway, Ireland > http://deri.ie/ > > Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria > http://kli.ac.at/ > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > DBpedia provides Linked Data URIs for 2.6 million things. However, it > > wasn't always easy in the past for other Linked Data publishers to > find > > a DBpedia URI. > > > > DBpedia Lookup [1] aims to fill that gap. It provides a service to > find > > the most-likely DBpedia URIs for a given keyword. The underlying > > algorithm ranks DBpedia resources based on their relevance in > Wikipedia > > and includes synonyms into the index. > > > > Try the terms "Shakespeare", "EU", or "Cambridge" and see for > yourself > > if the results you'd expect show up at the top. The result ranking is > > different - and supposed to be more useful - than a simple full-text > > search or SPARQL-Query with embedded regular expression for matching > > labels. > > > > There is a web-service available at [2]. You can use the > KeywordSearch > > method for searching full terms (as you see at [1]), and the > > PrefixSearch method for an autocompletion-style interface such as the > > one you see at [3]. The webservice returns a list of resource URIs > with > > English abstracts, dbpedia classes and categories. > > > > Feel free to use the service as you like. If you plan to use it in a > > production system or to run a high-load batch process, please drop me > a > > message to let me know. Thanks. > > > > I hope that DBpedia Lookup is useful for you, and I'd appreciate any > > feedback. > > > > Many thanks to the semantic web folks at the BBC for their support > and > > feedback on the development of DBpedia Lookup. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Georgi > > > > > > [1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org > > [2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx > > [3] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/autocomplete.aspx > > > > -- > > Georgi Kobilarov > > Freie Universität Berlin > > www.georgikobilarov.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
