On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Georgi Kobilarov wrote:
Hello open data enthusiasts,
There is so much open and often linked data available on the web,
but there
has been a lack of an integration service tying together all that
linked
data into a more coherent experience.
We are glad to announce the release of uberblic.org, a free
integration
service for the web of data which aims to create that integrated
experience.
This is great, but how is it different from http://ckan.net?
Having a service like this is extremely necessary, but having too many
services like this, especially ones that overlap, might lead to
confusion. Clarity of purpose vis a vis existing efforts might be very
helpful.
Uberblic imports structured data from sources like Wikipedia,
Geonames,
DBpedia, and the BBC, and integrates those sources into a single,
coherent
data set. It provides a single point of access to integrated web
data, and
we will continue to import many more open data sources soon.
Our Uberblic Platform imports and processes live data, providing e.g.
real-time updates of Wikipedia infobox changes, and will enable
users of our
mapping editor to extend data schema mappings interactively. The
platform
processes these mapping changes and pushes the resulting data updates
immediately into our data repository.
Please find more details about the project on http://uberblic.org
and find
the announcement with screencast on our blog:
http://uberblic.org/2010/01/uberblic-release/
For discussion about the project, please refer to our uberblic-
discussion
mailing list:
http://lists.uberblic.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
We are very excited about this first release, and are very looking
forward
to your feedback!
Many thanks to our partners at Talis for their great support and for
hosting
the SPARQL endpoint for Uberblic on their Talis Platform.
Best,
Georgi
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Georgi Kobilarov
Uberblic Labs Berlin
www.georgikobilarov.com
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