Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Constructing the right SPARQL query

2013-12-21 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Ali, To combine two (or more) sets of conditions for a query, use the UNION operator. See for a similar usecase of DBpedia this question on StackOverflow (usually a better place to ask programming questions, by the way): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10720471/figuring-out-the-right-sparql-

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Linking content from DBpedia to my content (was: Please Urgent Question Need answer)

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Abdullah, Excuse me for breaking into your discussion, but from what I understand, you don't need to extract anything from Wikipedia yourself. The DBpedia (Live) project have the abstracts of all Wikipedia articles; if you have a list of article titles you can just retrieve them from DBpedia.

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] owl:sameAs values inconsistent with internal resource URIs

2013-03-06 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Grant, When I click the link I get redirected to (3 instead of 4), so it looks like the "resource" URIs are not stable. There is no owl:sameAs either

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Information Extraction using DBpedia

2013-02-27 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Amir, The reasoning you want is the classic deductive reasoning using classes and subclasses. Settlement is defined as a subclass of Place (although maybe not directly). That means that all Things that are Settlements are also Places. Tehran is a Settlement, so it is also a Place. If you want

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Wrong type in RDF & SPARQL view

2013-02-09 Thread Ben Companjen
On 9 February 2013 18:21, Adrian Gschwend wrote: > > > ok but is there any reason that there are two properties? > > From what I've read, dbprop properties are automatically created for some/all infobox properties, and the dbpedia-owl properties have been explicitly mapped. > > Adrian > Ben >

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Source of VIAF identifiers (and LCCN, ...)

2013-01-17 Thread Ben Companjen
%2Fproperty%2Fviaf%3E+%3Fo}+LIMIT+100&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on > > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Roland Cornelissen > wrote: >> >> Hi Ben, >> You have rights now to edit mappings: Happy Mapping to you! >> It will be great if you

[Dbpedia-discussion] Source of VIAF identifiers (and LCCN, ...)

2013-01-17 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi all, I was wondering where the identifiers for VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) came from. They (and e.g. LCCNs) are usually input in Authority control templates, but there is no mapping for that template [1]. (Can I make that? I just registered as Bencomp.) Somehow they were mapped