Chris Bizer wrote:
Hi all,
Metaweb has started to publish data dumps of the complete Freebase dataset
under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. The dumps are in a
triple format (not RDF) and Metaweb will update the dumps every three months
from now on.
See: http://blog.freebase.com/2008/03/28/full-data-dumps-are-now-available/
I think that it would really be exiting to turn these dumps into RDF,
publish them on the Web as Linked Data and interlink them with data sets
from the LOD cloud. For instance, interlinking them with DBpedia should be
very easy as both datasets contain Wikipedia article identifiers.
If somebody is interested in doing this, please contact me.
Robert Cook from Metaweb has pointed me at the dumps, so it looks like
Metaweb itself would also support this effort.
Chris,
Nice development in the right direction by Freebase :-)
There are dual benefits here:
1. SQL Data
2. XML Data
I see value in using the above to demonstrate:
1. Linked Data from SQL-RDF mapping (virtual triples)
2. Persistence of the Virtual Triples to create physical triples
3. RDFization / Triplicifation of the Freebase Web Services (we've had
this since a few weeks after Banff)
All of the above provide nice tutorial material re. the routes the
creating and publishing Linked Data which is still a moderately
understood subject.
We are certainly interested from an OpenLink (Virtuoso Storage and
Publishing) and also Zitgist perspective (Storage and Publishing that
leverages UMBEL).
There will be more on UMBEL and how Zitgist has used this to glue a
myriad of ontologies together resulting in a Linked Data based Concept
Scheme <http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#L2430>.
Kingsley
Cheers
Chris
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