On 12/2/09 13:45, Georgi Kobilarov wrote:
Hi Matthias,
It works with HTTP GET as well, see the web-service descriptions at [1]
and [2] (scroll down a bit).
[1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx?op=KeywordSearch
[2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx?op=PrefixSearch
Cheers,
Georgi
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Georgi Kobilarov
Freie Universität Berlin
www.georgikobilarov.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Samwald [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:13 PM
To: Georgi Kobilarov; [email protected];
public-
[email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ANN] DBpedia Lookup
I see that the web service is implemented with SOAP. As this service
will
mainly be used in light-weight web applications where autocompletion
is
required, a simpler interface would be very helpful (i.e., a
REST-style
service that works with simple HTTP GET requests).
Cheers,
Matthias Samwald
DERI Galway, Ireland
http://deri.ie/
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution& Cognition Research, Austria
http://kli.ac.at/
Hi all,
DBpedia provides Linked Data URIs for 2.6 million things. However,
it
wasn't always easy in the past for other Linked Data publishers to
find
a DBpedia URI.
DBpedia Lookup [1] aims to fill that gap. It provides a service to
find
the most-likely DBpedia URIs for a given keyword. The underlying
algorithm ranks DBpedia resources based on their relevance in
Wikipedia
and includes synonyms into the index.
Try the terms "Shakespeare", "EU", or "Cambridge" and see for
yourself
if the results you'd expect show up at the top. The result ranking
is
different - and supposed to be more useful - than a simple full-text
search or SPARQL-Query with embedded regular expression for matching
labels.
There is a web-service available at [2]. You can use the
KeywordSearch
method for searching full terms (as you see at [1]), and the
PrefixSearch method for an autocompletion-style interface such as
the
one you see at [3]. The webservice returns a list of resource URIs
with
English abstracts, dbpedia classes and categories.
Feel free to use the service as you like. If you plan to use it in a
production system or to run a high-load batch process, please drop
me
a
message to let me know. Thanks.
I hope that DBpedia Lookup is useful for you, and I'd appreciate any
feedback.
Many thanks to the semantic web folks at the BBC for their support
and
feedback on the development of DBpedia Lookup.
Cheers,
Georgi
[1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org
[2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx
[3] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/autocomplete.aspx
Did you consider using a subset of SPARQL resultset format for the
results? (json / xml) ... even if there is not a "real" SPARQL service
behind the links?
cheers,
Dan
