All,
One of the cool things that came out of yesterday's opengraph schema
enhancements was the mapping to DBpedia's ontology. Naturally, the
effects of this aren't obvious if you can't even view the ontology etc..
Here is a link that shows the effect of TBox meshups:
BTW -- do note that the UMBEL project [2] was always about this kind of
meshup. Now if you follow my TBox meshup, you will note that the DBpedia
and UMBEL ontologies aren't directly connected, but once you get to
OpenCyc (by following-your-nose) the connection manifests.
Conclusion:
As the lights really begin to brighten re. Linked Data, you will begin
to see a lot more of what's be talked about in the past but not fully
comprehended or appreciated. For instance, these mapper
schemas/ontologies lay the foundation for optional "context rules" that
make Linked Data meshes much more coherent and navigable (i.e., adding
CLASSiness [3])
Links:
1.
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fopengraphprotocol.org%2Fschema%2FActor
-- explore the what TBox mappings can deliver
2. http://umbel.org -- early mapping scheme effort
3. http://bit.ly/dk0yvu -- old post about CLASSiness shot to DBpedia
(note: the queries reflect older DBpedia incarnations).
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
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