Hi Jeff To get VIAF matches I used Roderick Page's Refine VIAF reconciliation service which worked really well. Jane from our project wrote a post on this which has been well received in the #lodlam community and explains much more in case you're interested - http://archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/2013/08/hub-viaf-namematching/
I have tried various attempts to download VIAF and DBPedia RDF dumps and then trim them down to just foaf:name, surname dates etc., but have still been getting performance problems when loading into local stores. In the end I gave up and sucked out the DBPedia URIs from the VIAF link.txt.gz download at http://viaf.org/viaf/data/. Not ideal and means we'll have missed anything that VIAF haven't picked up, but fairly straightforward at least. I'll try and put a more thorough email detailing what I did, what versions of Open and LOD Refine and share some of the project files later today. Adrian _____________________________ Adrian Stevenson Senior Technical Innovations Coordinator Mimas, The University of Manchester Devonshire House, Oxford Road Manchester M13 9QH Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6065 http://www.mimas.ac.uk http://www.twitter.com/adrianstevenson http://uk.linkedin.com/in/adrianstevenson/ On 28 Oct 2013, at 20:54, Jeff Mixter wrote: > Adrian, > > Did you just load the VIAF data dump into you own triple store? As far as I > know, there is no VIAF SPARQL endpoint current offered by OCLC. > > Thanks, > > Jeff Mixter > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Adrian Stevenson > <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep I've been trying to use the open refine reconciliation against SPARQL end > points recently without success despite trying all sorts of ways in. Got it > working fine with a viaf API reconcil service using the same data so had > assumed the SPARQL wasn't working. > > Adrian > > > On 28 Oct 2013, at 19:01, "Hugh Glaser" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Unfortunately I’ve not been a regular user, so it is probably my stupidity. > > Basically, I go through the Reconcile process using the Freebase Reconcile > > service, but it doesn’t find anything to reconcile, even though I have > > fixed it so that there is an entry that has exactly the same text as the > > Freebase entry title. > > It just shows as if there are no positive results. > > I try clicking on the search for match after that, but it never comes back, > > which makes me wonder. > > > >> On 28 Oct 2013, at 18:53, John Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hugh, I wonder if you could be more specific regarding the troubles > >> you had with OpenRefine? > >> > >> One of our students also had trouble, and I'm wondering if it might be > >> the same problem. > >> > >> Like you, reconciliation with Refine has worked for me in the past but > >> I haven't tried the same process using OpenRefine... > >> > >>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Hugh Glaser <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Hi. > >>> I’m not sure where to ask, so I’ll try my friends here. > >>> I was having a go at OpenRefine yesterday, and I can’t get it to > >>> reconcile, try as I might - I have even watched the videos again. > >>> I’m doing what I remember, but it is a while ago. > >>> Are there others currently using it successfully? > >>> Or is it possibly a Mavericks (OSX) upgrade thing, which I did recently. > >>> Cheers > >>> -- > >>> Hugh > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> John S. Erickson, Ph.D. > >> Director, Web Science Operations > >> Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) > >> <http://tw.rpi.edu> <[email protected]> > >> Twitter & Skype: olyerickson > > > > -- > > Hugh > > 023 8061 5652 > > > > > > > > > -- > Jeff Mixter > [email protected] > 440-773-9079
