Re: How to align ontology terms that are similar but are set to potentially incompatible domain?

2012-02-10 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Pete, This is an interesting use case showing the complexity of aligning ontologies, and the lack of a standard way to represent alignments. I couldn't access http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ so I'll give you an examples using the Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary (biol) the Wildlife Ontology (w

Re: Newbie's question on similarity between two entities

2012-03-28 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Leonidas, iSPARQL [1] from the University of Zurich is what you need. The project page is at [2] but seems not maintained. Cheers, François [1] http://www.merlin.uzh.ch/publication/show/2830 [2] https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/oldweb/ddis/research/completed-projects/semweb/isparql/index.html

Special Issue of Journal of Web Semantics on Data Linking

2012-04-23 Thread François Scharffe
Studi di Milano) • Andriy Nikolov (Open University) • François Scharffe (LIRMM, Université de Montpellier 2)

Re: Reference Alignment for Instance Matching Task

2012-05-09 Thread François Scharffe
Dear Samur, We are preparing the OAEI benchmark for this year's edition. It would be interesting to know your requirements in terms of size, domain, benchmark structure (eg pairs of datasets or across multiple datasets) or any other evaluation parameter you would like to see. Generaly speaking

Re: CSV to RDF converter

2012-12-13 Thread François Scharffe
Also in ths category you can use Datalift to do naive CSV to RDF and then SPARQL CONSTRUCT. Also provide a simple GUI to generate part of the CONSTRUCT queries. http://datalift.org/ Le 12/12/12 22:50, Martynas Jusevičius a écrit : Hey Ying, why don't you just convert CSV to "raw" RDF and then

Re: soliciting your favorite (public) SPARQL queries!

2008-08-21 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Lee ! Here are queries demonstrating the use of SPARQL CONSTRUCT for data transformation between heterogeneous vocabularies. The following queries allow to transform FOAF resources into vCard ones: PREFIX vCard: http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0# PREFIX foaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/

Re: A VoCamp Galway 2008 success story

2008-11-29 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Michael, thank you for the link ;) It seems that the current voiD spec supposes that the linkset (set of interlinks) is supposed to be included in one of the two interlinked datasets. I think it would make sense for the linkset to be considered independently from the two interlinked dataset

Re: A VoCamp Galway 2008 success story

2008-11-29 Thread François Scharffe
versity of Ireland, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland tel. +353 91 495730 http://sw-app.org -- François Scharffe wrote: Hi Michael, thank you for the link ;) It seems that the current voiD spec supposes that the linkset (set of interlinks)

Re: A VoCamp Galway 2008 success story

2008-12-01 Thread François Scharffe
e published independently from any of the linked datasets? Also, can you present us with your use case that requires exchanging descriptions of such linksets? If there is enough interest, we will consider a modelling that can be used for both scenarios. Best, Richard On 29 Nov 2008, at 10:16,

vocabularies and data alignment

2009-06-11 Thread François Scharffe
Dear LODers, There has been a couple of discussions already on this list on the need for a vocabulary to represent correspondences between terms of different vocabularies. We also saw recently various tools (e.g. Silk, ODDlinker) allowing to automatically interlink datasets given a specification

vocabularies and data alignment

2009-06-11 Thread François Scharffe
Dear LODers, There has been a couple of discussions already on this list on the need for a vocabulary to represent correspondences between terms of different vocabularies. We also saw recently various tools (e.g. Silk, ODDlinker) allowing to automatically interlink datasets given a specification

Re: vocabularies and data alignment

2009-06-11 Thread François Scharffe
link-generator specifications, many exist and we would like to look at them and see how they could be published. Cheers ! Francois Kingsley Idehen wrote: François Scharffe wrote: Dear LODers, There has been a couple of discussions already on this list on the need for a vocabulary to represent

Re: vocabularies and data alignment

2009-06-12 Thread François Scharffe
Hugh Glaser wrote: Hi, To put it in simple terms for me :-) Are you after the algorithms we use to identify when two instances are the same? Best Hugh Yes ! François On 11/06/2009 12:57, "François Scharffe" wrote: Dear LODers, There has been a couple of discussions already on

Re: vocabularies and data alignment

2009-06-12 Thread François Scharffe
rl.org/NET/googlevocab# UMBEL is about doing this on bigger and broader scales :-) That's always been the purpose of this project since inception. Kingsley Best Hugh On 11/06/2009 12:57, "François Scharffe" wrote: Dear LODers, There has been a couple of discussions already

Re: vocabularies and data alignment

2009-06-12 Thread François Scharffe
Kingsley Idehen wrote: François Scharffe wrote: Hugh Glaser wrote: Hi, To put it in simple terms for me :-) Are you after the algorithms we use to identify when two instances are the same? Best Hugh Yes ! François So if the answer is "Yes". Then do you mean things in the ABo

Ontology alignment evaluation initiative

2009-06-19 Thread François Scharffe
Hi, The OAEI 2009 campain [1] might be of interest to some of us. It proposes an evaluation of ontology matchers. Particularly, this year has an instance matching track [2] proposing to find equivalent instances in various RDF testbeds. Cheers, François http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009

Re: Core Ontology on Events -- Re: looking for an event ontology/vocabulary

2009-08-05 Thread François Scharffe
Hi all, Slightly on the side of the topic, I would like to draw your attention to the ontology patterns workshop at next ISWC (see the recent call from Aldo and [1]). That's the perfect place to discuss modeling topics like the one discussed on this thread. The workshop includes a call for pa

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Dbpedia-Freebase raw dump of conditional probabilities

2009-08-20 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Ryan, The alignment format [1] might also be interesting. It can be used for for data and schema alignment. This format is supported by many matchers, have a look at the ontology alignment evaluation initiative [2]. Also, the approach of separating the alignment as an output of a matcher an

Re: Ontology Wars? Concerned

2009-11-20 Thread François Scharffe
Hi ! Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: [...] I think we need a Wiki, where people will post what their problem were, what data they needed, what data they had, which ontologies they needed, and what they did to meet these needs. Eventually, this will evolve into a reference site with best practices for

Re: Ontology Wars? Concerned

2009-11-20 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Kjetil, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Friday 20. November 2009 09:37:42 François Scharffe wrote: Eventually, this will evolve into a reference site with best practices for each problem newcomers present, and provide a launchpad for ventures beyond what's there with minimal cost. Sounds

Re: Nice Data Cleansing Tool Demo

2010-03-29 Thread François Scharffe
Hi David, Great work ! When will the tool will be released ? I can't wait trying it. Cheers, François David Huynh wrote: On Mar/29/10 12:31 am, Kingsley Idehen wrote: All, A very nice data cleansing tool from David and Co. at Freebase. CSVs are clearly the dominant data format in the struc

Re: Announce: Linked Data Patterns book

2010-04-06 Thread François Scharffe
Hi, OntologyDesignPatterns.org is indeed the place to discuss ontology patterns. It's also good to know which patterns are useful in practice, and linked-data vocab patterns are used in vocabs that are themselves effectively used to describe data. The "known uses" field is actually empty for

Re: Project LASSO for contexualised LOD lookup and interlinking

2010-05-19 Thread François Scharffe
Hi Thomas, You might want to look at the instance matching track at the OAEI 2009. http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/instances/ On the results page you'll find a set of participating systems that might interest you. We are going setting up a new experiment this year that I was about to anno

automatic data interlinking

2010-05-21 Thread François Scharffe
Hello, Part of the ontology alignment evaluation initiative [1] we will have for the 2nd year a data interlinking evaluation. We propose in this track to evaluate systems able to *automatically* find interlinks between Web datasets, in contrast to semi-automatic tools. This year we will focu

CFP: Workshop on Knowledge Injecting into and Extraction from Linked Data (KIELD2010)

2010-05-31 Thread François Scharffe
[Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop on Knowledge Injecting into and Extraction from Linked Data (KIELD2010) Co-located with EKAW 2010 - 11th to 15th October 2010 Website: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Odp:KIELD2010 Submissions: KEY DATES Submission deadline:

2nd CFP and keynote speaker annoucement; KIELD workshop @ EKAW 2010

2010-06-30 Thread François Scharffe
eptance notification * August 25, 2010: Camera-ready versions of papers * October 11th: Workshop day Best Regards, Valentina Presutti, François Scharffe, Vojtech Svatech

Deadline extension; KIELD workshop @ EKAW 2010

2010-07-16 Thread François Scharffe
bmission deadline * August 9, 2010: Paper acceptance notification * August 25, 2010: Camera-ready versions of papers * October 11th: Workshop day Best Regards, Valentina Presutti, François Scharffe, Vojtech Svatech

Re: RDF interlinking evaluation.

2011-04-28 Thread François Scharffe
Hi, You can have a look at the OAEI instance matching track 2009 [1] and 2010 [2]. The datasets haven't been manually curated but are the results of semi-automated interlinking techniques. You can still compare the results of your tool with others (see [3]). François [1] http://oaei.ontology

Re: Using OWL ontology as data

2014-03-03 Thread François Scharffe
Salut Julien, you might be interested by the Lexinfo project http://www.lexinfo.net/ which provides a vocabulary for attaching lexical information to ontologies. François Le 03/03/2014 09:57, Julien Plu a écrit : Hello, I try to create an ontology to lexicalize the french language. And in m