On 11/11/10 1:09 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > 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.
Yes, I am aware of the SPARQL endpoints. > 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). Similar != Equivalent :-) Again, this I know, I am very familiar with Freebase (tech and personnel). >> 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. Yes, I am one such individual. I asked: do they have an RDF dump. If they offer an endpoint (that emits RDF output) what's the problem with a dump? > In this particular case the request was for _local data_ > about _companies_. There was no linked or Linked or RDF aspect to it. Local data with DBpedia meshing in mind. You can dump all of part of DBpedia to a local drive or DBMS (e.g. quad or triple store). > 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. I think it does since I don't think the user (who posted to DBpedia forum) has data translation in mind. > 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. Of course note. As demonstrated by the Freebase endpoint. It has a boat load of cross references to DBpedia that I can obtain in RDF formats :-) Kingsley > Tom > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
