Try with the OKKAM Entity Name System (ENS) http://api.okkam.org/search/
you can search by company name and you can retrieve the DBPedia URI and additional URIs for the resource. You can also narrow down the search on organizations. API access is also available. Best, Angela. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 11/11/10 2:31 PM, Paul Houle wrote: > > On 11/11/2010 12:32 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > > Tom, > > Where are the RDF format dumps from Freebase? If they aren't delivering > RDF dumps, of what value are these dumps to someone working with Linked > Data? Note, I don't think people are expecting to make translations when > the initial goal was to reconcile companies leveraging common data > representation. > > Hopefully, you will prove me wrong and unveil their RDF dumps. > > Note, I've requested these dumps repeatedly from freebase (pre > acquisition) and basically stopped asking. > > I believe the content of rdf.freebase.com can be generated by a very > simple algorithm from the quad dump. I think it would be less than a week > of work to code something up that downloads the quad dump, > > It's much less that than using Virtuoso's sponger or the Virtuoso crawler + > Sponger etc.. > > transforms it into triples, and outputs a big NT file. > > That's a simple export to N number files post ingestion. > > I'm not going to do it unless somebody pushes a few G's my way because I > don't need it -- I can get exactly what I want out of the core dump in the > format I need already. > > Nice answer :-) > > > > That said, I don't like the Freebase RDF mappings because they stick > too close to the structure of the quad dump, therefore introducing tons of > blank nodes. For instance, if you take a look at > > http://rdf.freebase.com/rdf/en.michael_cera > > You'll find this silly blank node > > <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en.michael_cera> > <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/type.object.key> _:rdNoDsEC11104 . > _:rdNoDsEC11104 <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/type.key.namespace> > <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/authority.tvrage.person> . > _:rdNoDsEC11104 <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/type.value.value> "13091" . > > Seems to me that this could be attacked with some kind of URL mangling, > like > > <fb:ns/en.michael_cera> <fb:ns/type.object.key> > <fb:ns/authority.tvrage.person/13091> . > > ---- > > More fundamentally, the Freebase dumps don't use standard vocabularies. > For instance, in the care of Mr. Cera, we could make quite a few FOAF and > DC assertions. Similarly, the Freebase schema could be (largely) expressed > in OWL. > > Exactly! And this isn't what the individual who posted the initial question > would be expecting discover re. DBpedia integration etc.. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > President & CEO > OpenLink Software > Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
