Josh,
A very cool dataset! Some questions:
1. I tried to open the example URIs in the Tabulator data browser, but
for some reason Tabulator doesn't kick in, I just see Firefox's usual
RDF source view. The “Get Info” window in Firefox says that the RDF is
served as text/xml, which would explain the effect. But if I try to
confirm this with curl it seems like the results are actually
correctly served as application/rdf+xml. Any idea what's going on?
2. You use 302 redirects to get from the identifiers for people and
companies to their RDF descriptions. Is this an oversight? Shouldn't
it be 303, because the redirect goes from one resource (e.g. a person)
to a different resource (an RDF document about the person)?
3. Is the schema (especially the ussec namespace) documented anywhere?
Is there a list of all the available properties? I tried to get such a
list using "SELECT DISTINCT ?p WHERE { ?s ?p ?o }" but this seems to
exceed the endpoint's execution time limit.
4. As I'm not familiar with the U.S. environment: What is the coverage
of this data? Is it all publicly traded U.S. companies?
5. I see you have a Semantic Sitemap at rdfabout.com -- can you add
this dataset to it? (This helps us index the dataset into Sindice.)
Cheers, and keep up the great work,
Richard
On 19 Apr 2008, at 13:15, Joshua Tauberer wrote:
(cross-posted to LOD and get-theinfo...)
In response to a thread on Aaron Swartz's get-theinfo list, I
resurrected my RDF data for U.S. corporate ownership derived from
publicly filed records to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
commission's
EDGAR database.
It's 1 million triples, HTTP and SPARQL-accessible. More here
(including source code, data dump, and examples):
http://rdfabout.com/demo/sec/
The records establish board membership, officer positions, and 10%-
or-more ownership relations. Note that people can enter into any of
those relations with corporations, but additionally corporations can
be 10% owners of other corporations. The records exist at time
points when the interest (i.e. stock ownership) of an individual or
corporation that is in one of the relations above with a corporation
changes. It is thus possible (and likely) that individuals who are
no longer in such a relation with a corporation are still listed as
such in this data.
Here are some starting points:
News Corp (owner of FOX, WSJ, and other media things):
http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/sec/id/cik0001308161
Rupert Murdoch (media mogul behind News Corp):
http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/sec/id/cik0001024835
There are no links to other data sets.
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- Josh Tauberer
http://razor.occams.info
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falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" Achilles to
Tortoise (in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter)
