Re: Potential Home for LOD Data Sets - is it Open?

2008-12-06 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Kingsley. Getting there, I think/hope. So exactly what is the URI? I run something like select * where { ?s ?p "ZNF492" } and get back things like http://purl.org/commons/record/ncbi_gene/57615, but these are not URIs in the Amazon cloud, and so if that is where I was serving my Linked

Re: Potential Home for LOD Data Sets - is it Open?

2008-12-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Hugh Glaser wrote: Thanks Kingsley. In case I am still misunderstanding, a quick question: On 06/12/2008 23:53, "Kingsley Idehen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Linking Open Data Sets on the Web, is about publishing RDF archives with the following characteristics: 1. De-referencable URIs

Re: Potential Home for LOD Data Sets - is it Open?

2008-12-06 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Kingsley. In case I am still misunderstanding, a quick question: On 06/12/2008 23:53, "Kingsley Idehen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Linking Open Data Sets on the Web, is about publishing RDF archives with > the following characteristics: > > 1. De-referencable URIs ... So if someone

Re: Potential Home for LOD Data Sets - is it Open?

2008-12-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Hugh Glaser wrote: Sorry, but you probably knew this was coming... The esw page starts by saying: "The Open Data Movement aims at making data freely available to everyone." This is the context for the LOD activity. And I guess you knew this was coming: You already have DBpedia on the Web w

Re: Potential Home for LOD Data Sets - is it Open?

2008-12-06 Thread Hugh Williams
Hi Hugh, Note sure I follow your argument, as LOD or DBpedia in this specific case is free ... if you either: 1. Access the live service hosted by OpenLink at http://dbpedia.org 2. Setup your own DBpedia instance locally as detailed at: http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/ rdfperformancetu

Re: Potential Home for LOD Data Sets - is it Open?

2008-12-06 Thread Hugh Glaser
Sorry, but you probably knew this was coming... The esw page starts by saying: "The Open Data Movement aims at making data freely available to everyone." This is the context for the LOD activity. Personally I am quite happy with an LD world and a LOD world, but I think that some people have a de

Re: Exercise: LOD questions (R)†was ( Do we need another list(s)? )

2008-12-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Juan Sequeda wrote: This is a series of questions that I received from a member in our Semantic Web Austin group. I can't seem to answer all of them thoroughly. Hope we can get more answers on this and we can start creating material for the FAQ I am proposing. -- These a

Re: What's the Value Prop. of Linked Data?

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Davis
Hi Aldo, On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Aldo Bucchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linked Data is not just a new tool that helps you develop faster ;) > Kingsley is hinting just that. This is an industry changer. > IT is there to help people and companies do "things". In this case, > the "how" is

Re: Exercise: LOD questions (R)†was ( Do we need another list(s)? )

2008-12-06 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
> - My company has recently released an API for access to structured > (database) data about 55 million companies and 35 million people. Do > you think I should release this in an LOD format? How would my > customers benefit. could be tricky usually one such api involves looking up and finind de