There's a few semantic web app's out there. I've been using freebase<http://www.freebase.com/> as my semantic web app of choice for a number of projects - it's got a slick UI. Here's a map of Birth places of Members of the House of Commons<http://www.freebase.com/view/user/sprocketonline/default_domain/views/members_of_the_house_of_commons_by_place_of_birth> for example; and for US politics they've parsed CRP contributions<http://www.freebase.com/view/user/robert/us_congress/crp_contribution?domain=/user/robert/us_congress> already. It definitely makes a better app if you are able to leverage the sort of data available through the Semantic web. I think Microsoft's Political Streams <http://livelabs.com/social-streams/> app was built on top of freebase's api<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/developing_applications> during the 2008 election.
Iain On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Tony Bowden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Francis Davey<[email protected]> wrote: > > Its very very easy to parse anything structured in a mediawiki (just a > > few regular expressions and a bit of code), so anything in a table or > > a template can be parsed even if there's nothing cleverer there. I've > > not tried Semantic MediaWiki but given that the unimproved system can > > be (and is) used by people interested in structured data, I'm sure it > > is good. > > It is. In one of my possibly madder moments a few years back I > actually built a small business accounting system on top of it that's > still in active use today (and withstood two HMRC inspections of the > business): > http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2582 > http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2584 > > The reporting side of Semantic MediaWiki has gotten a lot better over > the last few years, but as it stores all the semantic information in > their own tables, it's also easy to write your own scripts to just act > directly on the underlying database (as we did for complex reports > like producing a P&L). > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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