Thanks Ed. Is there any way to do all of this offline? I assume since dbpedia provides datasets for download, I should be able to have an offline RDF database containing everything I need. I'm guessing the lookup service is online only, but I could try to find alternatives for that piece.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Robert Campbell <rrc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In summary: what's the best way to translate a company name to a >> dbpedia resource and what dataset actually contains the information >> shown in that URL for company resources? > > Did you run across http://lookup.dbpedia.org yet? It's ranking is > quite good, and it has a nice xml webservice, e.g. > > http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx/KeywordSearch?QueryString=IBM&QueryClass=String&MaxHits=10 > > Once you get the URL for the resource you want, you can resolve it and > dig into the RDF to see what's there. There is also the SPARQL > endpoint too [1] for when you get familiar with the RDF data that's in > dbpedia. > > //Ed > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion