Re: fans of Linked Open Data and the NFL, NHL, or Major League Baseball?

2008-06-21 Thread Bob DuCharme


Kingsley Idehen wrote:
Today we have ESPN and co. offering analysis via the traditional one-way 
TV medium. Tomorrow, I envisage a conversation space connected by 
analytic insights from Joe Public the analyst.  Also, what's good for 
sports applies to Politics, Finance, Soap Operas, and other realms.


What I'd really like to do as a next step is to identify a Linked Open 
Data advocate who happens to watch a lot of one of the sports for which 
more data is becoming available, and then encourage that person to get 
in touch with one of the stats-oriented communities within that sport to 
help make these stats available as a SPARQL endpoint. If it was soccer, 
Uche would be an obvious candidate, but judging by 
http://www.sportsstandards.org/oc the NHL, NFL, or MLB seem to be the 
best places to start.


At the next Boston/Cambridge/semweb/LOD meetup, I suggest you keep you 
eye out for Red Sox, Bruins, or Pats-themed clothing...


Bob




Re: fans of Linked Open Data and the NFL, NHL, or Major League Baseball?

2008-06-21 Thread Kingsley Idehen


Bob DuCharme wrote:

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
Today we have ESPN and co. offering analysis via the traditional 
one-way TV medium. Tomorrow, I envisage a conversation space 
connected by analytic insights from Joe Public the analyst.  Also, 
what's good for sports applies to Politics, Finance, Soap Operas, and 
other realms.


What I'd really like to do as a next step is to identify a Linked Open 
Data advocate who happens to watch a lot of one of the sports for 
which more data is becoming available, and then encourage that person 
to get in touch with one of the stats-oriented communities within that 
sport to help make these stats available as a SPARQL endpoint. If it 
was soccer, Uche would be an obvious candidate, but judging by 
http://www.sportsstandards.org/oc the NHL, NFL, or MLB seem to be the 
best places to start.


At the next Boston/Cambridge/semweb/LOD meetup, I suggest you keep you 
eye out for Red Sox, Bruins, or Pats-themed clothing...


Bob



Bob,

I am a major Soccer, Football (NFL), Basketball (NBA), and Baseball 
(MLB) (play-offs only) fan.


Uche and I share Soccer fan DNA  amongst other things :-)

I've looked at the site you suggested and it provides a number of great 
data sources for LOD and RDB2RDF projects.


We will certainly have a crack at a Linked Data Space based on what's 
available.


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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen   Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President  CEO 
OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com