On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/11/10 11:55 AM, Tom Morris wrote: >> You could use the Freebase data dumps to narrow down what you're >> looking for and then go to DBpedia for any missing information. >> They're down weekly and include both DBpedia IDs as well as the >> original Wikipedia article number, so you can easily link to either. >> http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Data_dumps >> >> Anything with the type /business/business_operation should be a >> company, division, subsidiary, etc. >> >> You can use the data for anything you want as long as you provide >> attribution. > > Tom, > > Where are the RDF format dumps from Freebase?
As far as I know they provide an RDF end point, but not RDF dumps. The wiki page that I linked to has detailed information on the dump formats (quads similar to N3 triples and a lightly processed Wikipedia dump format called WEX). > If they aren't delivering > RDF dumps, of what value are these dumps to someone working with > Linked Data? I've actually heard some people preach that linked data isn't solely about RDF. In this particular case the request was for _local data_ about _companies_. There was no linked or Linked or RDF aspect to it. Don't get me wrong. I think Freebase RDF dumps would be nice. It just doesn't have anything whatsoever to do with what the user asked. As long as we're talking about standards though, both DBpedia and Freebase use largely private schemas/vocabularies, so even if you were to get things in RDF you would still have a ton of non-standard stuff to deal with. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
