Not sure this is relevant but there is also FMDB, a Freebase application for browsing Freebase movie data. See for instance: http://jameshome.com/freebase/fmdb/index.html?movie=%2Fguid%2F9202a8c04000641f80000000000583d6
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Yves Raimond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I'd just like to point out the following: > http://www.omdb.org/movie > which has a better licensing, it seems: > http://www.omdb.org/content/Copyright > > Perhaps worth getting in touch with them to see if they can provide some > RDF? > > > > > > AFAIK Jen Golbeck used imdb data for Filmtrust [1] (not this is not > > published as linked data unfortunately, and I'm not sure what the > status > > is), but in general I think people have given the imdb data a fairly > > wide berth in the LOD community precisely due to the licensing issues. > I > > certainly looked into it WRT Revyu, but instead opted to use film data > > from Dbpedia as this is more in spirit with the efforts of the > > community. Until the day comes when imdb publishes linkable (and > linked) > > data then I'd argue in favour of giving the link-cred to Dbpedia. > > > > Last summer at KMi Peter Coetzee produced a pretty accurate list of all > > the films in Dbpedia, excluding the items classified as films that > > actually aren't. This produced a set of ~12,000 items (down from the > > 30,000 actually classified as films - sorry Georgi ;) I'd be very happy > > to dig this data set out of storage and share it with the community if > > people would be interested to see it. > > > > <snip> > > > > > in other words, given the imdb licensing realities, are imdb > > > URIs useful as identifiers even if we can't use the related > > > data? are URIs useful in LOD on their own? > > </snip> > > > > In summary I think we should pour the effort into Dbpedia (and related > > projects already within the LD space), on the basis that imdb can join > > the party later if they wish. > > > > Re using URI's based on imdb identifiers, I think it does no harm to > add > > pointers to imdb pages (e.g. <film-on-dbpedia> foaf:page > > <page-on-imdb>), but one shouldn't mint URIs in someone else namespace > > (i.e. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/#thing> is out). However, > > there's nothing to stop you minting identifiers such as > > <http://mydomain.eg/imdb/title/tt0088846>. > > > Yes, I would either mint new URIs, which can later sameAs to IMDB > URIs, or use a foaf:page to link to the IMDB page. Anyway, both of > them would be useful! > > Cheers! > y > >
