Thank you very much for your replies! I will do my reading and will let you know if there is something to brag about :)
Some notes to the replies above: @ Alex ACE/APE definitely look like cool concepts, but currently I have a good triple store available (OWLIM) and a part of the idea is to learn more about it. @ Sören This looks very much like what I would like to achieve and I may use it as an example, but more humane interface somehow. @ Zach Very useful links, thank you very much! Especially the payment ontology is something that I needed at a very practical level! @ Friedrich It is rather soothing that it is not just me who finds these technologies not, well, intuitive. But once I've seen the connections and the inference possibilities - i decided I should at least try it. Thank you once again! Peio Popov On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 15:04, Friedrich Lindenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Peio, > > that sounds like an interesting project, please keep us updated as you > go along! In late 2010 I tried porting OpenSpending (then WDMMG) over > to RDF but couldn't make it work and decided the overhead was not > justified by the expected gains [1]. I still think that for very > fine-grained data (such as spending), you may be better off using an > RDBMS or CSV (although I am increasingly a fan of putting URIs in both > of those). What it gives you is ease of use, better aggregation and > query language etc. > > On the other hand, I like the idea of putting more "meta" data like > actor profiles into a graph, although I've started doing a non-RDF > version even here: https://github.com/pudo/grano - maybe a bit > relevant? > > Have fun! > > - Friedrich > > [1] http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/openspending/2010-November/000704.html > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Peio Popov <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear OKFN, >> In the recent weeks I am playing and learning more about the general >> idea of applying Semantic Technologies to the public information about >> political funding and spending and the way it relates to the political >> activity. >> >> My general idea of a project is to RDF-fy and link the open data about the: >> >> 1. Political parties, their budget subsidies, donations, annual >> budgets, election campaign budgets and donations >> 2. MP's linked to the parties, their profile, parliamentary activity >> and annual tax declarations and >> 3. Public officials and other data - "somehow" linked to the political >> parties and the MPs >> >> If it sounds too broad and vague - it probably is. I am just reading >> and experimenting for the fun of it. >> >> What I would like to achieve as a result is something that will enable >> me to perform reasoning and inference based on the semantics of the >> data. >> >> This kind of tasks are usually assisted by the application of an >> ontology to the dataset so my first question is if you can recommend >> such ontology in the field that I would generally call Linked >> Political/Spending Data? >> >> I imagine further efforts in this direction would have to involve >> web/text mining and applying semantic annotations according to the >> conceptual models, so if you have any recommendations in this >> directions - please share. >> >> Does any of these questions sounds like something you already met? >> >> I will be grateful for any response and general comment that might >> help me in these wanders. >> >> Peio Popov >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
