On 10/11/2011 12:43, kevin carter wrote:
Hello thanks for your help with the postcode query. The reason I ask
is I have over the past five years been making a digital public
artwork called www.landscape-Portrait.com. This has involved me and
various collaborators working with communities and encouraging them to
record their own profile of an area as a counterpoint to that provided
by postcode demographics - see www.landscape-portrait.com.
I am now in the position of having an archive of geo stamped video
portraits of various locations in the UK and I wanted to link these to
postcode. My first thought was to do this via Wikipedia/DBpedia; does
this sound plausible ?, I am somewhat of a newbie to the world of
linked data.
Any thoughts of advice would be appreciated,
I think the Ordnance Survey postcodes Linked Data should work for you.
The URLs are constructed from the postcode itself in a logical way, e.g.
my postcode of RH15 8JA has this URL:
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/id/postcodeunit/RH158JA
so you don't need a fancy lookup service to find out what the correct
URL is for a given postcode.
If you access this URL in a browser you will see that there is a lot of
useful information, including lat/long and administrative areas. Access
it as RDF (by content negotiation - or by sticking '.rdf' on the end!)
and you get back a machine-processible version of this information.
Presumably you want to create a linked data description of each of your
videos which includes the postcode? Is the intention to put these
descriptions up on Wikipedia, or will you be creating your own online
resource?
Richard
Kevin Carter.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Koller<dakol...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
just a short note: UK postcode related information as linked data is
provided by UK Ordinance Survey at http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/.html .
John Goodwin (@gothwin on Twitter) can help.
Kind regards,
Daniel
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Patrick van Kleef<pkl...@openlinksw.com>
wrote:
HI Kevin,
Apologies if this covers old ground but I am new to DBpedia and after
a cursory hunt around the archive nothing
quite answered my question.
I was searching through the DBpedia?wikipedia data set and entered the
UK postcode N194EH, at present there is
no entry fro this. Is there away to enter this information direct to
DBpedia ? or does it have to go through Wikipedia ?
If so when is the next download from Wikipedia ?
cheers for any help you can give.
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from
Wikipedia and to make this information searchable on the Web.
About two times a year the teams extract all the data from wikipedia
and publish this as semantic data on http://dbpedia.org/sparql
However we now also have a live instance where the latest article
changes from wikipedia are processed. This means that if you change an
article in the English wikipedia, these changes in as far as they are
mapped to the semantic will be merged into the live instance within
minutes.
Currently there are two sparql endpoints for this effort
http://live.dbpedia.org/sparql
and http://dbpedia-live.openlinksw.com/sparql
Patrick
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