Hello Joachim, > Are there some ideas out there how foreign-language-only entries could > be added to the DBpedia dataset? (and how we could get rid of foreign- > language entries which are connected to the English version afterwards > and therefore are sameAs the first class (English) DBpedia entries?)
I agree that there's a demand for URIs for foreign-language-only entries. One approach *could* be to create DBpedia namespaces for every language, such as http://de.dbpedia.org for German, http://fr.dbpedia.org for French etc., and interlink URIs across languages with owl:sameAs links. So http://de.dbpedia.org/resource/Freie_Universität_Berlin owl:sameas http://dbpedia.org/resource/Free_University_of_Berlin But this would mean minting a lot of new URIs, and I'm not completely convinced of that approach. But I don't really see another solution for the problem of URIs for foreign-language-only entries. We can't add the foreign entities to the main dbpedia namespace, because that would mess things up completely, and there certainly are a lot of articles with the same name but referring to different concepts across languages. Note that we can represent data extracted from infoboxes from other languages by using e.g. Named Graphs, so this is only about those entities which are *not* in the English Wikipedia as well. So I'd like to ask the community: 1) Do you like the above approach? 2) How deeply do you need URIs for non-english concepts (those which can't be added to the English Wikipedia) Cheers, Georgi -- Georgi Kobilarov Freie Universität Berlin www.georgikobilarov.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
