I see that the web service is implemented with SOAP. As this service will mainly be used in light-weight web applications where autocompletion is required, a simpler interface would be very helpful (i.e., a REST-style service that works with simple HTTP GET requests).
Cheers, Matthias Samwald DERI Galway, Ireland http://deri.ie/ Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria http://kli.ac.at/
Hi all, DBpedia provides Linked Data URIs for 2.6 million things. However, it wasn't always easy in the past for other Linked Data publishers to find a DBpedia URI. DBpedia Lookup [1] aims to fill that gap. It provides a service to find the most-likely DBpedia URIs for a given keyword. The underlying algorithm ranks DBpedia resources based on their relevance in Wikipedia and includes synonyms into the index. Try the terms "Shakespeare", "EU", or "Cambridge" and see for yourself if the results you'd expect show up at the top. The result ranking is different - and supposed to be more useful - than a simple full-text search or SPARQL-Query with embedded regular expression for matching labels. There is a web-service available at [2]. You can use the KeywordSearch method for searching full terms (as you see at [1]), and the PrefixSearch method for an autocompletion-style interface such as the one you see at [3]. The webservice returns a list of resource URIs with English abstracts, dbpedia classes and categories. Feel free to use the service as you like. If you plan to use it in a production system or to run a high-load batch process, please drop me a message to let me know. Thanks. I hope that DBpedia Lookup is useful for you, and I'd appreciate any feedback. Many thanks to the semantic web folks at the BBC for their support and feedback on the development of DBpedia Lookup. Cheers, Georgi [1] http://lookup.dbpedia.org [2] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/api/search.asmx [3] http://lookup.dbpedia.org/autocomplete.aspx -- Georgi Kobilarov Freie Universität Berlin www.georgikobilarov.com
