Kingsley Idehen wrote:
Hugh Glaser wrote:
An interesting question - should be a classic for Linked Data.
As I understand it, your primary problem for New Zealand is that
there is no reliable information about the administrative geography.
It doesn't help for New Zealand (!), but for the UK you could use the
Ordnance Survey's, which can be found in RDF via
http://osdir.com/ml/web.semantic.linking-open-data/2008-05/msg00011.html
We have made it linked data at os.rkbexplorer.com, with a SPARQL
endpoint if you want it.
(If people are doing this sort of thing (if you thought of doing some
of it yourself), then reusing the OS ontology might be a good idea.)
For the UK, it would be a case of jumping (follow-your-nose)
backwards and forwards between the os and dbpedia, I suggest, using
the os to find the inclusion and dbpedia to find the knowledge.
This afternoon I did a bunch of links between them (the bigger areas
and towns), to let you have a go if you like, and these can be found
at our os coreference service (crs) at
http://os.rkbexplorer.com/crs/
By the way, if you want an easy way of finding out what URIs might
tell you what is known about a particular place (or anything), you
could try our sameAs service at
http://www.rkbexplorer.com/sameAs/?uri=
So New Zealand would be
http://www.rkbexplorer.com/sameAs/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_Zealand
And Wellington
http://www.rkbexplorer.com/sameAs/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Wellington
and you can follow-your-nose from there.
Hugh,
Assuming you sent this response before mine re.
http://lod.openlinksw.com . How does the following not resolve this
problem:
1. Go to http://lod.openlinksw.com
2. Enter pattern: New Zealand
3. Use "Type" and/or "Property" to locate what you want
4. Once found, click on "statistics" link
Kingsley
I should have added:
5. look at: http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct/facet.vsp?cmd=load&fsq_id=3011
(do use the "retry" button to maximize results)
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