>> Good. What about the front-end logic itself ? Is that Free Software, too?
I am afraid not. Its just the data that is open atm.
>> I'm asking because my intent is to develop a tool that everyone
can further refine.
>> ...
>> As I'm not interested in hosting my own dbpedia clone /
>> website, but rather in providing a graphical frontend to the existing
>> data, I'd like to see this added to dbpedia.org/sparql.
Makes sense to me. Will see what others say...
Cheers,
Kavi
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/06/2012 05:42 PM, AboutThisDay wrote:
> >
> > Oops! Accidentally hit reply instead of reply-to-all in my previous
> > reply. Others - please see a couple of short conversations below for
> > continuity.
> >
>
> Good idea, thanks.
>
>
> > >> I didn't know about this project. Can you tell me a little more
> > about it ?
> >
> >
> > AboutThisDay.com is a privately funded project run by a couple of
> > developers and started pretty much from our bedrooms. The first phase
> > of this project is a proof-of-concept piece for which we launched the
> > beta version only a couple of months ago. We are trying to wrap up a
> > few bits and pieces before we go live and yes – we need to prioritise
> > our ‘About Us’ page JCheck out our DBPedia announcement thread -
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29810506 for a
> > bit more background.
> >
> >
> >
> > >> Is it based on Free Software ?
> >
> >
> >
> > All our current data is based on the DBpedia dataset - the static
> > DBPedia dumps as well as the Live Updates - http://live.dbpedia.org/
> > (thanks once again to the DBpedia community)
> >
>
> Good. What about the front-end logic itself ? Is that Free Software, too
> ? (I'm asking because my intent is to develop a tool that everyone can
> further refine. It may be used from a website, but it may also be
> embedded in other applications (or be distributed as a smartphone app,
> say).
>
> > With regards to your original question about ranking the results, it
> > was the exact same problem we faced earlier in our project. As you can
> > see in www.AboutThisDay.com <http://www.AboutThisDay.com>, for a given
> > day you can potentially get thousands of results. Using the category
> > and year range filters, these results can be filtered by a great deal
> > but we still needed a way to bubble up the most popular results to the
> > top for quality and better user experience.
> >
>
> I hear you. :-)
>
> > For this ranking challenge, we have come up with our own home-grown
> > popularity algorithm and here is your answer: After looking at various
> > proprietary ranking sources like Alexa and SEOmoz, we are currently
> > evaluating the Wikipedia page count statistics data available at
> > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ for our popularity
> > algorithm.
> >
>
> Right, that is exactly what I'd like to do, too. Hence my earlier
> question whether that data is accessible from the existing dbpedia.org
> endpoint. As I'm not interested in hosting my own dbpedia clone /
> website, but rather in providing a graphical frontend to the existing
> data, I'd like to see this added to dbpedia.org/sparql. For prototyping
> purposes I can certainly live with a local clone, though.
>
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
>
> It certainly does, thanks !
>
>
> > PS: As always, we very warmly welcome your feedback reg.
> > www.AboutThisDay.com <http://www.AboutThisDay.com>. Please also show
> > your support by liking and tweeting us in social media.
> >
>
> I will, once I learn more about the project itself.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan
>
>
> --
>
> ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
>
>
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