Re: Is the same video but in different encodings the owl:sameAs?

2013-12-05 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello, On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Thomas Steiner to...@google.com wrote: Dear Public-LOD, As different Web browsers support different video codecs, with Web video it is not uncommon to see things like the below (simplified for legibility reasons)… video source src=./video.ogv

Re: Call for maintainers - Musicbrainz RDFa markup

2013-09-09 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello, On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl wrote: Hello, On 09/05/2013 02:37 PM, Barry Norton wrote: By the way, the easiest way to work with the server is to use the VM but this hadn't been updated since last year. I have an up-to-date version for the Summer School

Call for maintainers - Musicbrainz RDFa markup

2013-09-05 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello, Musicbrainz is a large music database and currently exposes a large amount of data as RDFa, accounting for quite a big (and useful) part of the Linked Data cloud. However they're lacking someone to maintain it going forward, to adapt it to previous and upcoming schema changes:

Re: Call for maintainers - Musicbrainz RDFa markup

2013-09-05 Thread Yves Raimond
sad) to lose the RDFa and re-examine the decision whether separate RDF-resolvable resources could be provided at MB.org or elsewhere. Barry [1] github.com/LinkedBrainz/MusicBrainz-R2RML On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Musicbrainz

Deadline Extension / Final CfP: First International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media (SMAM2013)

2013-07-10 Thread Yves Raimond
, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Yves Raimond, BBC RD, UK Programme committee Sebastian Ewert, Queen Mary, University of London, UK George Fazekas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Sean Bechhofer, University

Last CfP: First International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media (SMAM2013)

2013-06-28 Thread Yves Raimond
for time-based navigation e.g. musical and narrative structures Organising committee --- David de Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Yves Raimond, BBC RD, UK Programme committee Sebastian

2nd CfP: First International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media (SMAM2013)

2013-06-11 Thread Yves Raimond
for time-based navigation e.g. musical and narrative structures Organising committee --- David de Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Yves Raimond, BBC RD, UK Programme committee - Sebastian

CfP: First International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media (SMAM2013)

2013-04-26 Thread Yves Raimond
for time-based navigation e.g. musical and narrative structures Organising committee * David de Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, UK * Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London, UK * Yves Raimond, BBC RD, UK

Re: uri for uri

2013-04-01 Thread Yves Raimond
In which case we can probably get rid of the ':' too? On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Barry Norton barry.nor...@ontotext.com wrote: That would save a LOT of typing. I haven't used ftp:// in years, maybe we could just go for : and assume it's HTTP? Barry On 01/04/2013 14:57, Hugh Glaser

Re: Get your dataset on the next LOD cloud diagram

2011-07-13 Thread Yves Raimond
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bernard Vatant bernard.vat...@mondeca.com wrote: Re. availability, just a reminder of SPARQL Endpoints Status service http://labs.mondeca.com/sparqlEndpointsStatus/index.html As of today 80% (192/240) endpoints registered at CKAN are up and running. Monitor

Re: Think before you write Semantic Web crawlers

2011-06-22 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! The difference between these two scenarios is that there's almost no CPU involvement in serving the PDF file, but naive RDF sites use lots of cycles to generate the response to a query for an RDF document. Right now queries to data.southampton.ac.uk (eg.

Music and Semantic Web panel, London, 13th of May

2011-04-08 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! We're organising a panel discussion on music and the semantic web in London, on the 13th of May, as part of the 130th AES convention: http://www.aes.org/events/130/workshops/?ID=2639 Best regards, and hopefully see some of you there! Yves

Re: Music Linked Data Workshop, London, 12 May 2011

2011-02-28 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! And if you can make it to London for this workshop, we're organising a related panel discussion the day after at the Audio Engineering Society 130th convention in London. I'll send the programme over as soon as it is available. Best, y On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Daniel Alexander

Re: Concurrent namespaces for Creative Commons ontology

2010-12-21 Thread Yves Raimond
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Bernard Vatant bernard.vat...@mondeca.com wrote: Interesting ... it figures that the authoritative namespace for cc has been indeed http://creativecommons.org/ns#, for at least two years and certainly more. But since there is no mention of the new namespace

Linked Data and the Guardian

2010-10-18 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! The Guardian just announced that they added ISBNs and Musicbrainz GUIDs to their API: http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/linked-data-open-platform http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/references-in-api Nice feature enabling Linked Data apps (BBC Music?) to draw in

Re: SPARQL servers used in the LOD Cloud

2010-10-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! The list seems to miss all the SWI-Prolog endpoints for some reason, e.g. http://www.ckan.net/package/jamendo-dbtune Cheers, y On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jens Lehmann lehm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: Hello, On 01.10.2010 14:08, Richard Cyganiak wrote: The real news

Re: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

2010-09-06 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Anja Jentzsch a...@anjeve.de wrote: Hi all, we are in the process of drawing the next version of the LOD cloud diagram. This time it is likely to contain around 180 datasets altogether having a size of around 20 billion RDF triples. For drawing the

Re: Predicate for external links on dbpedialite.org?

2010-07-15 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Nicholas Humfrey nicholas.humf...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Hello, I have added external links to dbpedialite, for example see Berlin: http://dbpedialite.org/things/3354 Is there a better predicate to use than rdfs:seeAlso? I am not sure if it is correct

Re: Subjects as Literals

2010-07-06 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: Pat Hayes wrote: However, before I lose any more of my SW friends, let me say at once that I am NOT arguing for this change to RDF. so after hundreds of emails, I have to ask - what (the hell) defines RDF? I've read

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-02 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Ivan! On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Ivan Mikhailov imikhai...@openlinksw.com wrote: Hello Yves, It's a virtuoso function surfaced as a predicate. magic predicate was an initial moniker used at creation time. bif:contains doesn't exist in pure triple form etc.. Why couldn't it?

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-02 Thread Yves Raimond
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Henry Story henry.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 Jul 2010, at 09:39, Ian Davis wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: Jeremy, your argument is perfectly sound from your company's POV, but not from a broader perspective. Of course,

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-02 Thread Yves Raimond
Hi Richard! [trimmed cc list] On 2 Jul 2010, at 11:15, Yves Raimond wrote: I am not arguing for each vendor to implement that. I am arguing for removing this arbitrary limitation from the RDF spec. Also marked as an issue since 2000: http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have Identifiers in the form of Name References (which may or many resolve to Structured Representations of Referents carried or borne by Descriptor Docs/Resources). An Identifier != Literal. If

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Henry Story wrote: On 1 Jul 2010, at 16:35, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Hello Kingsley! [snip] IMHO an emphatic NO. RDF is about constructing structured descriptions where Subjects have

Re: Subjects as Literals, [was Re: The Ordered List Ontology]

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Henry Story henry.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 Jul 2010, at 18:18, Yves Raimond wrote: In any case RDF Semantics does, I believe, allow literals in subject position. It is just that many many syntaxes don't allow that to be expressed, It doesn't seem

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Jeremy! One example on the top of my head. You have a 'magic predicate' such as Virtuoso bif:contains, but slightly more expansive than that (a large index lookup, a difficult mathematical computation or fuzzy literal search, etc). If you were able to store the result in RDF once that magic

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Or, an even simpler use-case: storing metaphones for strings in a triple store. y On 1 Jul 2010 18:15, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jeremy! One example on the top of my head. You have a 'magic predicate' such as Virtuoso bif:contains, but slightly more expansive than

Re: MuSim Ontology problems (was Re: Share, Like Ontology)

2010-06-15 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! owl:Class is defined as a subclass of rdfs:Class *in the OWL specifications*.  The RDF/RDFS specification does not say anything about owl:Class.  So, from a pure RDFS perspective, owl:Class has as much meaning as, e.g., xyz:abc.  The fact that someone defines *somewhere* that xyz:abc

Re: MuSim Ontology problems (was Re: Share, Like Ontology)

2010-06-15 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! owl:Class is defined as a subclass of rdfs:Class *in the OWL specifications*.  The RDF/RDFS specification does not say anything about owl:Class.  So, from a pure RDFS perspective, owl:Class has as much meaning as, e.g., xyz:abc.  The fact that someone defines *somewhere* that

SKOS, owl:sameAs and DBpedia

2010-03-24 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! We are in the process of rolling out some links to DBpedia over in BBC Programmes. However, we are facing a small issue. We use our own categorisation scheme based on SKOS, and then want to add some sameAs links to DBpedia. For example, we currently publish the following statements:

Re: SKOS, owl:sameAs and DBpedia

2010-03-24 Thread Yves Raimond
Is that an issue? Should we drop SKOS altogether if we go on with that, or should we use skos:exactMatch instead of owl:sameAs? see also http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/term_focus I'm running out of excuses for not having added this already... Great, thanks for the link! However, I'd like

Re: SKOS, owl:sameAs and DBpedia

2010-03-24 Thread Yves Raimond
Is that an issue? Should we drop SKOS altogether if we go on with that, or should we use skos:exactMatch instead of owl:sameAs? see also http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/term_focus I'm running out of excuses for not having added this already... Great, thanks for the link! However, I'd like

Re: PHP RDF fetching code

2010-01-28 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Hugh! Did you try EasyRDF? http://code.google.com/p/easyrdf/ It was coded by Nicholas Humfrey from the BBC and has quite a lot of cool features whilst being very lightweight - it also handles cURL-ing/parsing for you. Cheers, y On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Hugh Glaser

Re: Question about paths as URIs in the BBC RDF

2010-01-28 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a question about something I've run across when trying to parse the RDF coming from the BBC.  If you take a document like:

Re: Question about paths as URIs in the BBC RDF

2010-01-28 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a question about something I've run across when trying

Re: Question about paths as URIs in the BBC RDF

2010-01-28 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Dan.  Simon Spero pointed me towards this as well (so I would like to publicly thank him, too). My takeaway is that both parties are doing something wrong here: 1) My parser needs to be aware of the context of

Re: Question about paths as URIs in the BBC RDF

2010-01-28 Thread Yves Raimond
, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a question about something I've run across when trying

Re: Question about paths as URIs in the BBC RDF

2010-01-28 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure this is what the spec actually says.  xml:base deals with relative URIs (which may be either a relative or absolute path, per

Re: RDF Update Feeds

2009-11-20 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Back in April, we had a similar discussion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2009Apr/0130.html Concretely, we are having exactly the same problem for syncing up aggregations of BBC RDF data (Talis's and OpenLink's), as our data changes *a lot*. Right now, we're thinking

Re: What about music-related URIs???

2009-09-06 Thread Yves Raimond
I guess it will be as soon as we actually send them a patch :-) I did some work on that last year (just rdf/xml) but as nick said, the codebase has been changing very fast since then... We should gather efforts once the big scary release is out and make it happen! Cheers, Y On 9/6/09, Kurt J

Re: [HELP] Can you please update information about your dataset?

2009-08-08 Thread Yves Raimond
BBC Later + TOTP (link not responding - 2009-04-01) That's my bad. The site's been down since we forgot to pay our ec2 bills :-/ Having said that the data has either moved or is in the process of moving to BBC programmes and BBC music so TOTP/Later should probably come off the cloud piccie

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-08-05 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! I was abroad these last weeks, and unable then to follow this thread with the necessary attention. It seems however evident to me that, when dealing contemporaneously with terms like ontology and event, one should have at least a look at NKRL (Narrative Knowledge Representation

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In particular, it refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either in the axioms or in the documentation, to explain what this

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
Indeed. However, it suffers from one glaring defect, which may simply be a problem of documentation: i does not explain its terms. In particular, it refers to a 'factor' of an event, without anywhere saying anything, either in the axioms or in the documentation, to explain what this strange

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
And while the Event ontology doesn't state event:Factor and geo:SpatialThing to be distinct (maybe they didn't want to make such statements about other people's terms - with OWL 2 they could do this for event:factor and event:place now though) I think it's pretty obvious that you're supposed

Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-07-29 Thread Yves Raimond
The disjoint statement between agent and factor defines factors as something that doesn't have an active role in the event. But are necessary for the event to take place? Or play a significant role in the event, so that if they were not present, the event would have been different? Or

Re: Links from Myspace to Musicbrainz

2009-07-16 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Leigh! Can you provide some examples of the data? I was looking for myspace links in the MusicBrainz data set earlier in the week but couldn't find any. This query: PREFIX mo: http://purl.org/ontology/mo/ SELECT ?myspace WHERE {  ?x mo:myspace ?myspace. } LIMIT 10 Returns no

Re: Links from Myspace to Musicbrainz

2009-07-16 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! The links to myspace are using owl:sameAs. The mo:myspace property points to a document (the myspace page), whereas we're asserting sameAs links between the same artists in Musicbrainz and Myspace. Try something like: PREFIX mo: http://purl.org/ontology/mo/ SELECT ?myspace WHERE {  

Re: Links from Myspace to Musicbrainz

2009-07-16 Thread Yves Raimond
/03e76712-dab1-4d7c-b347-1db970f93782 http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Mastretta_Rodr\u00EDguez . I'm not sure it is good practice to do owl:sameAs to html pages, if we are living in a Linked Data world? Best Hugh. On 16/07/2009 10:46, Yves Raimond

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

2009-06-22 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! (moving this to LOD public as suggested) General note: I am quite unhappy with a general movement in parts of the LOD community to clash with the OWL world even when that is absolutely unnecessary. It is just a bad engineering practice to break with existing standards unless you can

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

2009-06-22 Thread Yves Raimond
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Martin Hepp (UniBW)h...@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Ontology modularization is a pretty difficult task, and people use various heuristics for deciding what to put in the subset being served for an element. There is no guarantee

Re: Common Tag - semantic tagging convention

2009-06-12 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Danny Ayersdanny.ay...@gmail.com wrote: Really good to see this work! May be nothing, but...it appears the tagging date is associated with the tag. I assume most systems would want to infer that tags with the same meaning were equivalent (even though

Re: DBpedia user, who are you?

2009-05-20 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Georgi Kobilarov georgi.kobila...@gmx.de wrote: Hi all, I'm currently doing some planning for the future roadmap of DBpedia, and therefore gathering requirements and use cases. So I'm wondering: - Who is using DBpedia today or has evaluated it in

Re: ANN: GoodRelations - E-Commerce on the Web of Data - New Datasets and Applications

2009-05-20 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Not very linked data friendly (you'll end up with a large proportion of repeated triples in identical graphs, with different graph URIS), but certainly better than nothing. Just jumping on that - is that an issue? I would think not, as you may want to repeat information across

Re: last.fm events RDFizing

2009-05-11 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Hopefully we can make one coherent Linked Data Space via xslt at: http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/VAD/rdf_mappers/xslt/lastfm2rdf.xsl Example: http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/rdf/http://www.last.fm/music/Con+Funk+Shun%23this As per

Re: Segment RDF on BBC Programmes

2009-04-29 Thread Yves Raimond
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM, John Goodwin john.good...@ordnancesurvey.co.uk wrote: Hi, We just released a new version of BBC Programmes [1] with some nice RDF for segments of programmes. I thought it would be interesting to post it here, as it makes a nice new arrow in the linked data

Re: Segment RDF on BBC Programmes

2009-04-29 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! $ curl -H Accept: text/html;q=1,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,application/rdf+xml;q=0,text/rdf+n3;q=0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/149e6720-4e4a-41a4-afca-6d29083fc091 :-) We're aware of the limitations of mod_rewrite to effectively and correctly

Segment RDF on BBC Programmes

2009-04-28 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! We just released a new version of BBC Programmes [1] with some nice RDF for segments of programmes. I thought it would be interesting to post it here, as it makes a nice new arrow in the linked data cloud, from BBC Programmes to BBC Music (and from there to DBpedia). Here are some example

Re: Segment RDF on BBC Programmes

2009-04-28 Thread Yves Raimond
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! We just released a new version of BBC Programmes [1] with some nice RDF for segments of programmes. I thought it would be interesting to post it here, as it makes a nice new arrow in the linked data cloud

Keeping crawlers up-to-date

2009-04-28 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! I know this issue has been raised during the LOD BOF at WWW 2009, but I don't know if any possible solutions emerged from there. The problem we are facing is that data on BBC Programmes changes approximately 50 000 times a day (new/updated broadcasts/versions/programmes/segments etc.). As

Re: Keeping crawlers up-to-date

2009-04-28 Thread Yves Raimond
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Hello! I know this issue has been raised during the LOD BOF at WWW 2009, but I don't know if any possible solutions emerged from there. The problem we are facing is that data on BBC

Re: Keeping crawlers up-to-date

2009-04-28 Thread Yves Raimond
Hi Giovanni! nothing can beat having a semantic sitemap [1]. Basically you say that you change 1nce a day and give a link to the dump. Done :-) Well, the problem is that we don't have an RDF dump, and it is quite costly to generate one, due to the architecture driving the site (classic

Re: Keeping crawlers up-to-date

2009-04-28 Thread Yves Raimond
. Interested to know what you think. Cheers, L. 2009/4/28 Yves Raimond yves.raim...@gmail.com Hello! I know this issue has been raised during the LOD BOF at WWW 2009, but I don't know if any possible solutions emerged from there. The problem we are facing is that data on BBC Programmes

Re: Keeping crawlers up-to-date

2009-04-28 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Alternatively, why not take an approach similar to the Wikipedia live feeds, and push them out on public chat channels; perhaps SPARQL/Update messages on a read-only Jabber/IRC etc stream? Interested parties are free to consume them, and use the queries to keep their local copy

Re: News from lingvoj.org

2009-04-02 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Bernard! On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Bernard Vatant bernard.vat...@mondeca.com wrote: Hello all I've started refreshing the content of pages at http://lingvoj.org, which was long overdue. The data set now links to DBpedia (of course), Freebase and OpenCyc (which had been broken

Re: MusicBrainzRe: : Where is the linkage?

2009-02-19 Thread Yves Raimond
Yves: As you may know, we've been working on re-writing mb_server, so if you look at this, please make sure you look at the current TemplateToolkit work. This is where I leave the hard stuff to Yves :) Heh - Jason is sitting not far from me (BBC contractor working on the new mb_server), so

Re: MusicBrainzRe: : Where is the linkage?

2009-02-17 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org wrote: +cc: Robert, Yves On 17/2/09 21:52, Simon Reinhardt wrote: Kingsley Idehen wrote: We have a new Musicbrainz dump, and it will be integrated into DBpedia (I think Georgi is working on this). There will soon be a

Re: MusicBrainzRe: : Where is the linkage?

2009-02-17 Thread Yves Raimond
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Simon Reinhardt wrote: Kingsley Idehen wrote: Don't really know how you could expect me to be associated with output that wasn't Linked Data in the purest sense. I am not an isolationist :-) Have you looked at

Re: MusicBrainzRe: : Where is the linkage?

2009-02-17 Thread Yves Raimond
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Simon Reinhardt wrote: Kingsley Idehen wrote: Don't really know how you could expect me to be associated

Semantic Web pneumonia and the Linked Data flu (was: Can we lower the LD entry cost please (part 1)?)

2009-02-09 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Just to jump on the last thread, something has been bugging me lately. Please don't take the following as a rant against technologies such as voiD, Semantic Sitemaps, etc., these are extremely useful piece of technologies - my rant is more about the order of our priorities, and about the

Re: Can we lower the LD entry cost please (part 1)?

2009-02-07 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: My proposal: *We should not permit any site to be a member of the Linked Data cloud if it does not provide a simple way of finding URIs from natural language identifiers.* Rationale: One aspect of our Linking

Re: Can we lower the LD entry cost please (part 1)?

2009-02-07 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Sorry, I just cannot accept that a SPARQL endpoint is th esort of thing that we should be expecting new casual users to try to use, even with a query builder. You made the point about linkage systems - I was answering to that. I am not suggesting casual users should write SPARQL

Re: Granular dereferencing ( prop by prop ) using REST + LinkedData; Ideas?

2009-01-07 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On 5 Jan 2009, at 10:04, Yves Raimond wrote: Remember that Aldo was looking for something that allows clients to make smart decisions about when to follow a link out of an RDF document. He was not looking for something to describe the contents of RDF datasets on a high level

Re: Granular dereferencing ( prop by prop ) using REST + LinkedData; Ideas?

2009-01-05 Thread Yves Raimond
: pointing clients in the right direction, by expressing this document holds more persons born in NYC or this set of RDF triples holds Creative Commons records and associated tags. More comments inline. On 4 Jan 2009, at 14:28, Yves Raimond wrote: Yves, the proposal above addresses this. There would

Re: Granular dereferencing ( prop by prop ) using REST + LinkedData; Ideas?

2009-01-05 Thread Yves Raimond
Hi Bernhard! On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Bernhard Schandl bernhard.scha...@univie.ac.at wrote: Hi Yves, Indeed, that's a bad example - replace it by find here persons born in NYC and their birth date. It is easy enough to find examples that involve more than just one property in the

Re: Granular dereferencing ( prop by prop ) using REST + LinkedData; Ideas?

2009-01-04 Thread Yves Raimond
Hi Richard! On 3 Jan 2009, at 12:23, Richard Cyganiak rich...@cyganiak.de wrote: On 2 Jan 2009, at 23:20, Yves Raimond wrote: snip I proposed this solution: http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listName=Linking%20Open%20DatamsgId=20926 And some refinements here: http://simile.mit.edu/mail

Re: Granular dereferencing ( prop by prop ) using REST + LinkedData; Ideas?

2009-01-02 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello, and happy new year! Happy new year to all LODers! 2009 will certainly be another interesting year around here! Aldo, The issue you describe below has been discussed in a long thread back in 2007. We mostly talked about a slightly different problem -- where a resource description

Re: A VoCamp Galway 2008 success story

2008-12-01 Thread Yves Raimond
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Richard Cyganiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: François, We chose the current model (ds1 - containsLinks - ls - target - ds2) because we want to record which dataset contains the links. We have some use cases that require this. Your proposal (ds1 - target - ls -

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-22 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Richard Cyganiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yves, On 21 Nov 2008, at 22:30, Yves Raimond wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO considering myspace 12 billion triples as part of LOD, is quite

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-22 Thread Yves Raimond
Richard has an excellent point here. This type of data separation is one I could support. Jim's question can then be recast as something like, How big is the LOD cloud excluding wrappers of questionable copyright status? This view also suggests a community-building step: Someone with moral

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-21 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! I guess I asked the question wrong - the linked open data project currently identifies a specific set of dat resources that are linked together - so thie entity is definable - I didn't mean to ask how big the whole Semantic Web is - I meant how many triples are in this particular

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-21 Thread Yves Raimond
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overall, that's about 17 billion. IMO considering myspace 12 billion triples as part of LOD, is quite a stretch (same with other wrappers) unless they are provided by the entity itself (E.g. i WOULD count in

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-20 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Jim! So I've been to a number of talks lately where the size of the current (Sept 08 diagram) Linked Open Data cloud, in triples, has been stated - with numbers that vary quite widely. The esw wiki says 2B triples as of 2007, which isn't very useful given the growth we've seen in the

Re: Size matters -- How big is the danged thing

2008-11-20 Thread Yves Raimond
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dbtune.org provides at least 14 billion triples (see http://blog.dbtune.org/post/2008/04/02/DBTune-is-providing-131-billion-triples + the Musicbrainz D2R server at http://dbtune.org/musicbrainz/, so I guess you'd

Re: ArtistData...

2008-11-19 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Would be interesting to have the following MusicOntologized and LinkingOpenData-ed : https://www.artistdata.com/us/howitworks Looks nice - a bit like ping.fm, but for music-related data :-) However, I am not sure what there is to RDFize and interlink there, as the data is posted to

Re: Suggestions/existing material for Linked Data tutorial?

2008-11-19 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! We plan to publish, with Keith, a small how-to for doing a hands-on tutorial like the Web-of-data 101 session we did at the WOD-PD event. With Richard's permission, we'll also take a few things from his session, where he used some of the data we created during our session. The goal

Re: Suggestions/existing material for Linked Data tutorial?

2008-11-14 Thread Yves Raimond
Hi Danny! On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Danny Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi LODites, I'm going to be doing a tutorial at the SWAP conference in Rome on 15th Dec (main conf is 16th-17th, http://www.swapconf.it/2008/ ). Provisional title is Publishing Linked Data on the Semantic

Re: Linked data at Freebase

2008-10-31 Thread Yves Raimond
Just a small follow-up, the Freebase folks posted the following, announcing the Freebase RDF: http://blog.freebase.com/2008/10/30/introducing_the_rdf_service/ where they say they want to link to external ontologies :-) There is a mailing list available at

Re: Linked data at Freebase

2008-10-29 Thread Yves Raimond
Validator to help with some of this checking: for example http://idi.fundacionctic.org/vapour?vocabUri=http%3A%2F%2Frdf.freebase.com%2Fns%2Fen.blade_runnerclassUri=http%3A%2F%2FpropertyUri=http%3A%2F%2FinstanceUri=http%3A%2F%2FdefaultResponse=dontmind On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Yves

Re: Visualizing LOD Linkage

2008-08-06 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Hello! It depends on whether you know that the external references are distinct just based on the URI string. If someone links out to multiple formats using external resource links then they would have to be counted as multiple links as you have no way of knowing that they are

Fwd: [backstage] Muddy Boots + BBC Music Beta

2008-08-06 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! I thought this would be interesting for this list, as an example of a service using several LOD sources. However, it is a bit sad they don't expose the data they produce as linked data themselves - perhaps we should have a GPL-like license for LOD datasets if you derive data from this

Re: Visualizing LOD Linkage

2008-08-05 Thread Yves Raimond
/, http://dbtune.org/bbc/peel/ or http://dbtune.org/jamendo/ Cheers! y I don't know of a good way to measure the quality or usefulness of a dataset, and would like to simply claim that it cannot be easily expressed in a number. Best, Richard On 2 Aug 2008, at 16:23, Yves Raimond wrote

Re: Linked Movie DataBase

2008-08-01 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! We are pleased to announce the release of the preview version of the Linked Movie DataBase (LinkedMDB): http://www.linkedmdb.org LinkedMDB aims at publishing the first open linked data dedicated to movies. It currently contains over three million RDF triples with hundreds of

Re: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4

2008-07-09 Thread Yves Raimond
TimBL was on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning (the BBCs prime morning news/current affairs radio programme) talking about the Semantic Web, and specifically mentions Linking Open Data: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7496000/7496976.stm Nice :) Really nice! I like

Re: TimBL mentions Linking Open Data on BBC Radio4

2008-07-09 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Ian! I heard the interview too. It was cool (and slightly weird) to hear semantic web discussed on prime-time news, but I thought that Tim could have used a more compelling example. The interviewer didn't seem overly impressed by Tim's find me music by people born within 100 miles

Re: How do you deprecate URIs? Re: OWL-DL and linked data

2008-07-09 Thread Yves Raimond
If the best data / tools you have suggest that two docs/datasets are describing the selfsame entity, using owl:sameAs seems fine, even if you have a secret hunch you're only perhaps 95% confident of the data quality or tool reliability. If the best information you have instead is telling you

Re: Where is the INTERLINKED multimedia data?

2008-06-30 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! I'd like to ask for comments regarding a topic which IMHO has so far not been heavily addressed by our community: (fine-grained) interlinking of multimedia data. At [1] I've put together some initial thoughts. Please consider sharing your view and reply to this mail and/or add to the

Re: Linked Data Shopping List

2008-06-18 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! Tim just gave a great keynote here at Linked Data Planet here in NYC, including highlights such as stating again that Linked Open Data is the semantic web done right, and a paradigm shift all over again - great encouragement (not that we need any ;) for all the hard work put in by

Re: [call for comments] voiD - vocabulary of interlinked datasets

2008-06-13 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello! The examples look like the typical result of a SPARQL CONSTRUCT query against the endpoint. Would it be easier to give a URI which when used in a construct query against the declared void endpoint, would return a typical example of what can be expected? This would save people

Re: The king is dressed in void

2008-06-13 Thread Yves Raimond
Hello Giovanni! These are my final observations on this matter (then i am out :-) promised).. but as i said if i ever encounter myself the need for such a thing i'll share the use cases and similarly if such a thing comes to life and can add interesting features, we're pretty quick to

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