DBpedia 3.3 - different versions of Geo data description

2009-07-03 Thread blumauer
Dear, there are now three different versions/properties to describe geo locations: 1. http://dbpedia.org/page/Leipzig uses dbpprop:latDeg, latMin, latSec etc. 2. http://dbpedia.org/page/Berlin uses (good old) geo:lat, geo:long 3. http://dbpedia.org/page/Paris uses

[ANN] DBpedia 3.3

2009-07-03 Thread Georgi Kobilarov
Dear all, we are pleased to announce the release of DBpedia 3.3. This release is based on Wikipedia dumps of May 2009. The new release includes the following improvements over DBpedia 3.2: 1. more accurate abstract extraction 2. labels and abstracts in 80 languages (see [1]) 3. several infobox

Re: DBpedia 3.3 - different versions of Geo data description

2009-07-03 Thread Kingsley Idehen
bluma...@punkt.at wrote: Dear, there are now three different versions/properties to describe geo locations: 1. http://dbpedia.org/page/Leipzig uses dbpprop:latDeg, latMin, latSec etc. 2. http://dbpedia.org/page/Berlin uses (good old) geo:lat, geo:long 3.

Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread Chris Bizer
Hi all, I’m regularly following Alon Halevy blog as I really like his thoughts on dataspaces [1]. Today, I discovered this post about Google Fusion Tables http://alonhalevy.blogspot.com/2009/06/fusion-tables-third-piece-of-puzzle. html

Re: Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Chris Bizer wrote: Hi all, I’m regularly following Alon Halevy blog as I really like his thoughts on dataspaces [1]. Today, I discovered this post about Google Fusion Tables http://alonhalevy.blogspot.com/2009/06/fusion-tables-third-piece-of-puzzle.html “The main goal of Fusion Tables is

Re: Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread Sören Auer
Chris Bizer wrote: I’m regularly following Alon Halevy blog as I really like his thoughts on dataspaces [1]. I've the impression that's pretty much what DabbleDB [1] and others already do for ages even better than Google. Or am I wrong? --Sören [1] http://dabbledb.com/

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-07-03 Thread Danny Ayers
2009/7/2 Bill Roberts b...@swirrl.com: I thought I'd give the .htaccess approach a try, to see what's involved in actually setting it up.  I'm no expert on Apache, but I know the basics of how it works, I've got full access to a web server and I can read the online Apache documentation as well

Re: Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Sören Auer wrote: Chris Bizer wrote: I’m regularly following Alon Halevy blog as I really like his thoughts on dataspaces [1]. I've the impression that's pretty much what DabbleDB [1] and others already do for ages even better than Google. Or am I wrong? --Sören [1] http://dabbledb.com/

Re: Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread François Dongier
I wonder how Wolfram|Alpha could take advantage of all this data made available both by Google Fusion Tables and by the Linked Data project. Will Alpha just try to slowly integrate it through its curation pipeline? Wouldn't it be better to introduce something like curation coefficients that would

Re: Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread Kingsley Idehen
François Dongier wrote: I wonder how Wolfram|Alpha could take advantage of all this data made available both by Google Fusion Tables and by the Linked Data project. Will Alpha just try to slowly integrate it through its curation pipeline? Wouldn't it be better to introduce something like

Re: Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread François Dongier
Kingsley, Looks like you're imagining a scenario in which Wolfram Alpha, after having done its mathematical computation relevant to a particular user query, would expose its result in a format that would enrich the web of data. I agree that this would indeed be pretty nice but I wasn't asking for

Re: Fusion Tables: Google's approach to sharing data on the Web

2009-07-03 Thread Kingsley Idehen
François Dongier wrote: Kingsley, Looks like you're imagining a scenario in which Wolfram Alpha, after having done its mathematical computation relevant to a particular user query, would expose its result in a format that would enrich the web of data. I agree that this would indeed be pretty