Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread mats . gls
> > this is a data set i really want too somebody know a way around > the unicode problem??? > > Maybe find stuff like these "ï" with a regexp and then replace them with the correct unicode chars. In Python something like this looped through each line of the files should work I think: impor

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Kurt J
Hellos > The main major thing lacking now I think is links[1] to MusicBrainz, and I > don't think that can be done without a dump. Apart from that, the mappings > are also incomplete. The ruby code can be found at dataincubator[2]. but plz note the UTF-8 problems in the underlying dump as discuss

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 12:41 -0400, Bob DuCharme wrote: > Dave, > > Does this mean that no sample data has been created yet, or that > samples used in the course of development are not data that you are > free to share? Given the rather ... short ... timescale we were working under the sketchy ex

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread mats . gls
The main major thing lacking now I think is links[1] to MusicBrainz, and I don't think that can be done without a dump. Apart from that, the mappings are also incomplete. The ruby code can be found at dataincubator[2]. 1. http://blog.dbtune.org/post/2007/06/11/Linking-open-data%3A-interlinking-the

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Kurt J
Hello, >> Does anyone know the state of play wrt a linked dataset describing Discogs >> (the music/record site)? I've spent some time w/ Discogs stuff - it needs some work. The links to DBpedia are broken b/c of some capitalization errors, and the artist URIs and foaf:names are a bit borked b/c

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Bob DuCharme
Dave, Does this mean that no sample data has been created yet, or that samples used in the course of development are not data that you are free to share? thanks, Bob Dave Reynolds wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:29 -0400, Bob DuCharme wrote: Is any sample instance data available, whether

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Gannon Dick
Weren't these details of the discussion the sort of "Mission Creep" the org vocabulary meant to avoid ? Certainly NGO's including Commercial Interests would like nothing better than to ride the trustworthiness coattails of a Geo-Political State. But the State is trustworthy precisely because i

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:07 +0100, William Waites wrote: > On 10-06-03 09:01, Dan Brickley wrote: > > I don't find anything particularly troublesome about the org: vocab on > > this front. If you really want to critique culturally-loaded > > ontologies, I'd go find one that declares class hierarchi

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dan Brickley
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM, William Waites wrote: > On 10-06-03 09:01, Dan Brickley wrote: >> I don't find anything particularly troublesome about the org: vocab on >> this front. If you really want to critique culturally-loaded >> ontologies, I'd go find one that declares class hierarchies wi

Re: Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 6/3/10 7:07 AM, Matthew Rowe wrote: Does anyone know the state of play wrt a linked dataset describing Discogs (the music/record site)? There have always been Virtuoso Sponger [1] Cartridges (Basic and Meta) for Discogs. Examples: 1. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/entity/http

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:29 -0400, Bob DuCharme wrote: > Is any sample instance data available, whether it's using real or fake > organizations? Not yet, but there will be. Dave

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Bob DuCharme
Is any sample instance data available, whether it's using real or fake organizations? thanks, Bob

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread William Waites
On 10-06-03 09:01, Dan Brickley wrote: > I don't find anything particularly troublesome about the org: vocab on > this front. If you really want to critique culturally-loaded > ontologies, I'd go find one that declares class hierarchies with terms > like 'Terrorist' without giving any operational d

Discogs Linked Data

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Rowe
Does anyone know the state of play wrt a linked dataset describing Discogs (the music/record site)? I know that Leigh Dodds did some work about a year ago [1] but it appears that the data incubator page for the dataset is not active. There is also a SPARQL endpoint to the data at [2] but no

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dan Brickley
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Dave Reynolds > wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 17:06 +1200, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dave Reynolds >>> wrote: >>> > We would like to announce the availability of an ontol

Re: Why should we publish ordered collections or indexes as RDF?

2010-06-03 Thread Dan Brickley
2010/6/3 Haijie.Peng : > [Apologies for cross-posting] > > Why should we publish ordered collections or indexes as RDF? is it necessary? On the Web, very little is 'necessary'. But some things can be useful. Indexes and summaries can help software prioritise, and allow larger files to be loaded on