And what about this : http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt
248 countries, with ISO-3166 codes + geonamesID from which you can build the URI in http://sws.geonames.org/ namespace, and much more. Granted, this obscure but precious text file would need an RDF mirror. Bernard 2010/4/28 Dan Brickley <dan...@danbri.org> > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Paul Houle <p...@ontology2.com> wrote: > >> I took another look at the dbpedia ontology types and found something >> else disturbing: dbpedia has an order of magnitude more "Countries" >> than most authorities believe exist, for instance >> >> http://dbpedia.org/page/Zengid_dynasty >> >> About 350 of these make it through my unicorn filter, which is still >> too many. Some real countries fell out (notably "Russia") but that's >> because of methodological problems on my end. >> >> It's pretty clear at this point that I'm going to have to work >> backwards, establishing spatial control from another source and then >> mapping known entities to dbpedia terms. Ugh, looks like I'm building >> my own taxonomy after all. > > > You might find FAO's geopolitical ontology saves you some work - > http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo.asp > > <http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo.asp> > rapper ~/Downloads/geopolitical_v09.owl > -> > rapper: Parsing returned 12776 triples > > > Dan-Brickleys-MacBook-Pro:extraction danbri$ rapper > ~/Downloads/geopolitical_v09.owl | grep "rdf-syntax-ns#type" | grep > "#self_governing"| wc -l > rapper: Parsing URI file:///Users/danbri/Downloads/geopolitical_v09.owl > with parser rdfxml > rapper: Serializing with serializer ntriples > rapper: Parsing returned 12776 triples > 212 > > (I'm not the only one who does their rdf querying with grep, right?) > > 212 is at least in the right ballpark, and FAO's data makes various kinds > of careful distinction if you dig properly into the data. > > cheers, > > Dan > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > > -- Bernard Vatant Senior Consultant Vocabulary & Data Engineering Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 Mail: bernard.vat...@mondeca.com ---------------------------------------------------- Mondeca 3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: http://www.mondeca.com Blog: http://mondeca.wordpress.com ----------------------------------------------------
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