On 14 Nov 2009, at 12:44, Hugh Glaser wrote:
Anyone who can differentiate the two Lajos Hanzos in Mobile comms
(both of
whom have been in the same group at Southampton) deserves a medal,
and to
have the fruits of their labours recorded for posterity.
Mind you, for differentFrom to have any value, the different Things
must
have been given different URIs in the first place.
So we found that it was of limited value to us, as most of our co-
reference
problems came from multiple Things that had been incorrectly given a
single
URI in external sources. That is why we had to republish quite a lot
of
data, minting new URIs ourselves, as our sources were not
distinguishing
lexically similar strings enough.
Two very insightful paragraphs. A lot of food for thought in there.
Thanks for sharing Hugh.
Best,
Richard
But we may be approaching a day when it would be useful.
Anyone got any such RDF they want to point me at?
dbpedia guys, want to start picking up the disambiguation pages?
Best
Hugh
On 14/11/2009 10:20, "Richard Light" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
Following on from the excellent Open Data and the Semantic Web
meeting
at the London Knowledge Labs yesterday (thank you, Open Knowledge
Foundation), a thought occurs to me. I don't imagine it's a new one,
but I would be interested to know what has been done in this
direction.
Hugh Glaser's sameAs.org site [1] provides a facility for finding
multiple URIs for the same concept. How about a site which does the
opposite: indicates where URIs refer to _different_ concepts?
Obviously, this is only helpful where you might be tempted to assume
that the concepts are identical, e.g. because the same word or
phrase is
used to describe/identify both.
Wikipedia's disambiguation pages are doing this job for human
readers:
is there a Linked Data equivalent?
Richard
[1] http://sameas.org/
