Hi Juan, There is an interesting article in the Journal "Science" this week[1]. Linked Data concentrates on Mechanized Agent to Mechanized Agent interaction with the assumption that Person to Person interaction is the same ... maybe it's not.
Physical data about a region is available - sunshine and weather, for example[2], but you need to have a little geographic pre-filtering (a right join to be exact) so that you do not have to process 500+ million triples just to "discover" the rudimentary administrative framework. The ISWC is in Bonn, which has sunshine like the rest of North Rhine-Westphalia[3] (within 2 minutes, but check it yourself[4]). There is an ODS spreadsheet giving the UN/LOCODE entries for North Rhine-Westphalia [5]. These are by definition "internal points" just like the Hotel in Bonn. The status and function codes are in a PDF available directly from http://unece.org/ --Gannon [1] http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0929sp_twitter.shtml?sa_campaign=Internal_Ads/AAAS/RSS_News/2011-09-29/ [2] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/workday/ [3] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/de/ISWC2011.pdf [4] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/de/ [5] http://tinyurl.com/43hhj7o/de/nw/deregions.ods ________________________________ From: Juan Sequeda <[email protected]>
