GoodRelations: ProductOrService and its subclasses

2009-10-17 Thread Martin Hepp (UniBW)
Dear all: I thought it was helpful to clarify the usage of the four classes for products and services in GoodRelations: The intended usage is as follows: * ProductOrServicesSomeInstancesPlaceholder o Use this when you have multiple, mass produced items for sale. It represents mul

Re: Breaking News: GoodRelations data now shows up in Yahoo!

2009-10-17 Thread Martin Hepp (UniBW)
Hi David, Daniel O'Connor wrote: http://goodrelations.doconnor.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/ Freebase data being rendered as Good Relations ("Or Barbie and Ken's Semantic Web Playset") thanks for the initiative - very valuable! >What's the best way to validate this / check it would show up

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

2009-10-17 Thread Martin Hepp (UniBW)
Hi Eugenio: Eugenio Tacchini wrote: Hi Martin, thanks a lot for your detailed explanation; I will try to play with searchmonkey ASAP. I'm also the webmaster of an Italian Web site that sells event tickets and downloadable music and I would like to apply goodrelations to it. There is the st

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Juan Sequeda
Does Sindice crawl this (or any other semantic web search engines)? Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin www.juansequeda.com www.semanticwebaustin.org On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) < h...@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote: > Dear

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Martin Hepp (UniBW)
I don't think so, because this would require that Sindice crawled the whole regular web and checked the Spongers for each URL (sic!). Juan Sequeda wrote: Does Sindice crawl this (or any other semantic web search engines)? Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of T

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Juan Sequeda
But Sindice could at least crawl Amazon. It would be great to use sig.ma to create a "meshup" with the amazon data. Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin www.juansequeda.com www.semanticwebaustin.org On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Martin Hepp

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Juan Sequeda wrote: Does Sindice crawl this (or any other semantic web search engines)? Juan, Sponger is not about Sindice crawling our proxy URIs. The Web of Linked Data shouldn't be about mass crawling (search engine style) etc... Its really supposed to be about smarter data network traver

RE: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Georgi Kobilarov
> The Web of Linked > Data shouldn't be about mass crawling (search engine style) etc... It has to be. How would you answer a query like "all offers for a book written by a German author" without crawling the relevant data sets? Georgi > -Original Message- > From: public-lod-requ...@w3

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Juan Sequeda
I agree with Georgi. I would like to know what others think about this. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Georgi Kobilarov wrote: > > The Web of Linked > > Data shouldn't be about mass crawling (search engine style) etc... > > It has to be. How would you answer a query like "all offers for a book

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Georgi Kobilarov wrote: The Web of Linked Data shouldn't be about mass crawling (search engine style) etc... It has to be. How would you answer a query like "all offers for a book written by a German author" without crawling the relevant data sets? To qualify my response: It shouldn'

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Juan Sequeda wrote: I agree with Georgi. I would like to know what others think about this. What do you actually mean by Sindice indexing Sponger proxy URIs? Are you talking about it indexing in the same manner it does say, PingTheSemanticWeb? If so, then you are still thinking Google / Yahoo!

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Frederick Giasson
Hi all, The Web of Linked Data shouldn't be about mass crawling (search engine style) etc... It has to be. How would you answer a query like "all offers for a book written by a German author" without crawling the relevant data sets? First question would be: which dataset has this infor

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
With respect to crawling and "scraping" or "sponging" or .. "trying to guess" based on partial fragments of structured information i can say 3 thngs a) No, we're not doing it at the moment, we are only covering those who chose to put structured semantics. Some book stuff shows up in Sig.ma .. e.g.

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Giovanni Tummarello wrote: With respect to crawling and "scraping" or "sponging" or .. "trying to guess" based on partial fragments of structured information i can say 3 thngs a) No, we're not doing it at the moment, we are only covering those who chose to put structured semantics. Some book stu

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

2009-10-17 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi Guys, I am puzzled by the whole discussion, so will try to summarise to find out if I have some misunderstanding. It really is "just" about finding where the URIs are, and search engines are the game in town. We need to make it really easy for people to find the Linked Data URIs they need. Wrap