Thanks for posting this Ivan. I may have crashed the site :-( I was playing around with the SPARQL endpoint, which doesn't support SPARQL 1.1, mostly returns Gateway Timeouts, and eventually stopped working altogether, taking the site with it. :-(
SPARQL store performance aside, this is an impressive and promising project. The paper can be read in the Google Cache: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fiswc2011.semanticweb.org%2Ffileadmin%2Fiswc%2FPapers%2FIn-Use%2F70320209.pdf I made an entry on the Data Hub (the site formerly known as CKAN): http://thedatahub.org/dataset/zhishi-me On 28 Oct 2011, at 15:41, Ivan Herman wrote: > Unfortunately, the ISWC2011 web site is currently down but, I presume, it > will be up again soon. Worth looking at: > > http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/fileadmin/iswc/Papers/In-Use/70320209.pdf > > In short: Xing Niu et al, from APEX lab Shanghai and Southeast University, > created a Chines equivalent to DBPedia, combining the Chinese Wikipedia, and > two Chinese only on-line and community driven encyclopedia, namely Baidu > Baike and Hudong Baike. I am not sure of the exact numbers, but the combined > result, under the name of Zhishi.me, is of the same magnitude in size than > dbpedia. Just like dbpedia acted as a seed for the LOD, the idea is that > zhishi.me will act as a seed to pull in more linked data from China. > > Although the paper talks about a CLOD, for Chinese Linked Open Data, I would > hope and prefer that the CLOD and the LOD will not be different clouds but > rather one big cloud regardless of language. But I am sure it will be a major > addition to the LOD... > > Ivan > > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +31-641044153 > PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf > > > > >
