The Soldier in later Medieval England - databases

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hey all, I spy an article about http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/search.php on slashdot. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8160081.stm This database contains lots of records on Garrisons, Musters (call to serve), etc It occurs to me that this would be neat to interlink with Freebase

Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: > Heres another example. Cyc lists all the chemical elements, and cross-links > to other such lists in other ontologies using owl:sameAs. But the Cyc > ontology says that an element is the set (class) of all pieces of the pure > element, so that for

Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/7/22 Pat Hayes : > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 19:52 +0300, Bernhard Schandl wrote: >>> > I would say: Never assert sameAs. It's just too big a hammer. > Instead use a wide

Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Pat Hayes
Heres another example. Cyc lists all the chemical elements, and cross- links to other such lists in other ontologies using owl:sameAs. But the Cyc ontology says that an element is the set (class) of all pieces of the pure element, so that for example sodium in Cyc has a member which is the l

Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Ansell
2009/7/22 Alan Ruttenberg : > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 19:52 +0300, Bernhard Schandl wrote: >> >>> > I would say: Never assert sameAs. It's just too big a hammer. >>> > Instead use a wider palette of relationships to connect entities >>> > to oth

Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 19:52 +0300, Bernhard Schandl wrote: I would say: Never assert sameAs. It's just too big a hammer. Instead use a wider palette of relationships to connect entities t

Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 19:52 +0300, Bernhard Schandl wrote: > >> > I would say: Never assert sameAs. It's just too big a hammer. >> > Instead use a wider palette of relationships to connect entities >> > to other ones. >> >> which ones would you

Re: Recipe for Shops: Showing up in Yahoo and in the Web of Data in One Turn

2009-07-21 Thread Paola Di Maio
Martin well done, I definitely think this work is in the right direction in terms of making RDF usable thanks a lot for the contribution (how to bridge yahoo and google respective naming conventions is a good question and another issue entirely) Sorry have not had the chance to try it myself, but

Recipe for Shops: Showing up in Yahoo and in the Web of Data in One Turn

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Hepp (UniBW)
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Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Toby Inkster
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 19:52 +0300, Bernhard Schandl wrote: > > I would say: Never assert sameAs. It's just too big a hammer. > > Instead use a wider palette of relationships to connect entities > > to other ones. > > which ones would you recommend? skos:exactMatch = asserts that the two resour

Re: Merging Databases

2009-07-21 Thread Bernhard Schandl
Hi Alan, I would say: Never assert sameAs. It's just too big a hammer. Instead use a wider palette of relationships to connect entities to other ones. which ones would you recommend? Best, Bernhard