ANN: sameAs.org over 50M

2011-10-24 Thread Hugh Glaser
The number of URIs in http://sameas.org/ has been relatively static at just over 48M for a long time. But with the recent addition of new sets of links from Freebase, I thought it would be nice to tell you that it now has well over 50 million and climbing. Of course, size is not everything, and

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-09 Thread Toby Inkster
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 20:48 +0100, Hugh Glaser wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. I wonder if in http://example.com/foo I wrote: #me foaf:based_near _:lewes . _:lewes owl:sameAs

RE: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-09 Thread Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)
To: Richard Cyganiak Cc: Semantic Web; Linked Data community; Ian Millard Subject: Re: ANN: sameas.org Hi Richard, Here goes... On 04/06/2009 00:54, Richard Cyganiak rich...@cyganiak.de wrote: Hugh, Ian, Great work -- simple, visually attractive, does what it says on the tin

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-09 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 04/06/2009 00:54, Richard Cyganiak rich...@cyganiak.de wrote: Many thanks. Hope Ian's mods sort of fit: Hugh, Ian, snip / dc:title Co-references from sameAs.org for foaf.rdf#cygri . Done. Then, a foaf:primaryTopic triple would make several tools (most of all Tabulator) very

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-08 Thread Rob Styles
This is the license you're looking for... http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/ It's a public-domain dedication and license that says anyone is free to do as they wish with the data. If you're feeling more brand-conscious then CC0 also has the same effect and works for data,

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Berners-Lee
Agreed. Go for CC0. Disclaimers are an orthogonal issue I *hope*. On 2009-06 -08, at 00:13, Marc Wick wrote: Added some words in the about - any advice as to what the licence might be? I guess there is some cc licence that corresponds to: The information is provided as-is and without any

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-08 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thank you all. Very helpful. On 08/06/2009 12:45, Tim Berners-Lee ti...@w3.org wrote: Agreed. Go for CC0. Disclaimers are an orthogonal issue I *hope*. On 2009-06 -08, at 00:13, Marc Wick wrote: Added some words in the about - any advice as to what the licence might be? I guess

Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-07 Thread Hugh Glaser
I hate to continue the licence issue; I really don't care, but it seems I should have something. And the same is true of my other sites. And maybe people can help. The Open Database Licence puts constraints on users, such as: Include a copy of this Licence And as far as I can see, the most

Re: Exceptionally liberal licence - was Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-07 Thread Nathan Yergler
Perhaps you're looking for CC0, a waiver (as opposed to a license) of copyright and neighboring rights? http://creativecommons.org/license/zero and http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Nathan On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: I hate to continue

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Ferne
On 4 Jun 2009, at 23:47, Hugh Glaser wrote: Added some words in the about - any advice as to what the licence might be? I guess there is some cc licence that corresponds to: The information is provided as-is and without any warranty. It is freely available for any use as you wish. I would

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Dan Brickley
On 4/6/09 01:54, Richard Cyganiak wrote: Hugh, Ian, Great work -- simple, visually attractive, does what it says on the tin. A pleasure to use. Yup! :) I think it would be pretty cool to make it #this owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . That way, I could add a nice triple to my FOAF file: #cygri

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 04/06/2009 09:20, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: On 4/6/09 01:54, Richard Cyganiak wrote: Hugh, Ian, Great work -- simple, visually attractive, does what it says on the tin. A pleasure to use. Yup! :) I think it would be pretty cool to make it #this owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3,

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Ian Millard
The following formats are also supported: rdf+xml, text/n3, application/json, text/plain Starting on the HTML search result page and clicking though to the rdf+xml, n3, etc links, the uri query string parameter isn't %-encoded, so fragment identifiers don't get seen by the scripts which

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Toby Inkster
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 00:54 +0100, Richard Cyganiak wrote: The general RDF graph has the shape U1 owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . Oh yes, another thing: saying the above, with OWL reasoning in place is equivalent to saying: U1 owl:sameAs U1, U1, U1, U1 . in a way. For this reason, you

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Dan Brickley
On 4/6/09 10:45, Hugh Glaser wrote: Might it be possible to have the site offer URIs, and some commitment they'll probably be around for a few years (or somehow opensourced to collaborative maintainance if Southampton decide not to maintain it later?). No :-) Thanks for the clear answer :)

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Story Henry
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:18, Toby Inkster wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 00:54 +0100, Richard Cyganiak wrote: The general RDF graph has the shape A: U1 owl:sameAs U1, U2, U3, U4 . Oh yes, another thing: saying the above, with OWL reasoning in place is equivalent to saying: B: U1 owl:sameAs

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread robl
Hugh Glaser wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread robl
Hugh Glaser wrote: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-04 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi Richard, Here goes... On 04/06/2009 00:54, Richard Cyganiak rich...@cyganiak.de wrote: Hugh, Ian, Great work -- simple, visually attractive, does what it says on the tin. A pleasure to use. Question: What can you say about the provenance of the sameAs data? The about page doesn't

ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Hugh Glaser
We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. It sort of does what it says:- if you provide a URI, it will give you back URIs that may well be co-referent, should any be known to it. In addition, by using sindice.com, if you give it a string, it

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Danny Ayers
2009/6/3 Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk: We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with help finding URIs. Great stuff! We believe that the Semantic Web and Linked Data need to develop clear, focussed, services that only do one or two things, so that they can

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
Cool Hugh :-) great ajaxi thing as well. if you dont do this already it might make sense to also add from your page yu say There is currently no a service to enable arbitrary contribution to the contents. If you have significant data you would be prepared to give us, then please conact us at the

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Hugh Glaser
Many thanks, Toby, noted. I think I'll leave that to Ian in the morning; he knows more, and I am also learning the hard way not to correct things late at night with a glass in my hand :-) I appreciate the time to look at it, and if you see anything else please tell me. And thank you to the

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Sherman Monroe
Hugh, This is awesome, are you burning the URIs also, I see the links below the URIs point to resource descriptions, are those comprehensive descriptions from your index or just the sameAs descriptions? What data sources (aside from sindice) are you pulling your index from? Have you considered

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Cyganiak
Hugh, Ian, Great work -- simple, visually attractive, does what it says on the tin. A pleasure to use. Question: What can you say about the provenance of the sameAs data? The about page doesn't reveal much about this. This is sort of important to know before we can decide where and how

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Hugh Glaser
Dear Sherman, On 04/06/2009 00:17, Sherman Monroe sdmon...@gmail.com wrote: Hugh, This is awesome, Very kind. are you burning the URIs also, Sorry, not sure what you mean. No URIs are minted on sameAs (other than the implied search ones). I see the links below the URIs point to resource

Re: ANN: sameas.org

2009-06-03 Thread Yuzhong Qu
Hi all, A similar system (for Object Coreference): http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/ObjectCoref/ The Core coreference is based on owl:sameAs and IFP, and the Extension is based on label/local name and ranking strategy. It provides evidence for coreference (owl:sameAs triples, IFP property