Re: Data sets of LOD

2012-11-21 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote: > In discussions at the Biohackathon 2011 (Kyoto), we agreed that a standard > data set description would make it easier to consume distributed data such > as LOD. We created a wishlist of metadata that we would like to be able to > co

Re: ANN: EasyRdf for PHP version 0.7.0

2012-10-12 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi Nicholas, Nice work. With regards to your parsers, is it possible to stream parse large documents? (eg, by passing a callback function to the parser that will be called with a batch of triples, as they are parsed) How do the parsers compare with ARC2's parsers? Cheers Keith On Fri, Oct 12,

Re: Expensive links in Linked Data

2012-09-28 Thread Keith Alexander
You can have multiple documents about the same thing. Each document can contain a different (part of the whole) description, and can link to the other related documents. GET /someresource <> foaf:primaryTopic <#thing> . <#thing> foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf , <> . You can then provide more metadata ab

Re: Deserted Island Sem Web reading list

2012-09-13 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi, http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/ is Creative Commons licensed and http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ is freely available on the web. Cheers, Keith Alexander On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Mike Dupont wrote: > Hi there, > how about a list of books that are cr

Re: Finding a SPARQL endpoint by an LOD URI?

2012-07-04 Thread Keith Alexander
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Heiko Paulheim wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering whether there is a way of finding a SPARQL endpoint for an > LOD URI, i.e., a function f that behaves like > f() = > > TimBL's design issues documen

Re: CKAN lodcloud metadata: links:xxx and format-xx values

2011-11-30 Thread Keith Alexander
we generate RDF from the CKAN/thedatahub descriptions for http://dsi.lod-cloud.net/ and use http://prefix.cc to map the prefixes to vocabulary URIs. HTH Keith Alexander

Re: RDFa and HTML5

2011-11-29 Thread Keith Alexander
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Stéphane Corlosquet wrote: > > Side note: I'm not sure it's meteo:forecastPage that you want to use to > link a forecast to a geoname place. meteo:forecast looks like a better fit > (domain: Place, range: Forecast). > > Oops. I asked for meteo:forecastPage to be ad

Re: Weather related information published as Linked Data

2011-08-28 Thread Keith Alexander
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Tarling wrote: Hi Jeremy, > As part of this we are using Geonames IDs in our URLs to represent forecast > locations along the lines of bbc.co.uk/weather/:geoID, so for example the > forecast for Stafford would be something like > http://www.bbc.co.uk/weath

Re: Weather related information published as Linked Data

2011-08-28 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi Richard, > > Just wondering, is there an established Linked Data pattern for modelling > the concept of "current", e.g. either the "current" temperature or the > "current" weather forcast? In both those cases it would link back to the > last observation or forcast made, with the "current" value

Re: Weather related information published as Linked Data

2011-08-27 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi Richard, Some weather related Linked Data I've come across: http://ckan.net/package/los_metar http://ckan.net/package/aemet http://inamidst.com/sw/meteo/ http://ckan.net/package/knoesis-linked-sensor-data (and I made http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/ which contains regularly updated wea

Re: Vocabulary for weather data logging?

2011-08-11 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi Nick, I recently put together http://metoffice.dataincubator.org/ I used http://purl.org/ns/meteo# for most of the modelling, though you might need different vocabulary for observations rather than forecasts. I also created some new terms here: https://github.com/kwijibo/metoffice.dataincub

Re: Dataset URIs and metadata.

2011-07-22 Thread Keith Alexander
To answer the question about "datasets about datasets", William Waites has done some excellent work to produce RDF from CKAN at http://semantic.ckan.net/, which we are building on for the Dataset Inventory for the LATC project: http://dsi.lod-cloud.net/ (work in progress) which has a SPARQL en

Re: Dataset URIs and metadata.

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Alexander
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Frans Knibbe wrote: > Hello, > > I have just placed a Linked Data dataset online and now I am struggling with > finding the best way to publish the metadata of the dataset. I wonder if > there are best practices for referencing a dataset and its metadata, and for

Re: Ontology license info

2011-07-19 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi, Is an ontology a software project, a creative work, or data ? Is the intention to license the use of the terms, the triples of the ontology, or the reproduction of the documentation? There is also the dcterms:license property to point to a license. Maybe it is most useful if most ontologies ha

Re: Discussion meta-comment

2011-04-15 Thread Keith Alexander
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote: > Hi, > I am looking at the process and outcomes I observe, rather than delving into > the details. > It is not about whether people could have acted differently - it is about how > people actually did act. > A lost opportunity? Clearly there

Re: data schema / vocabulary / ontology / repositories

2011-03-14 Thread Keith Alexander
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Martin Hepp wrote: > Hi Dieter: > > There are several ontology repositories available on-line, but to my > knowledge they all suffer from two serious limitations: > > 1. They do not rate ontologies by quality/relevance/popularity, so you do not > get any hint whe

Re: Is vCard range restriction on org:siteAddress necessary?

2011-01-04 Thread Keith Alexander
int for an RDF addresses vocabulary, because it is based on a format used by particular applications, not around describing things in the real world and how they relate. With RDF, we (mostly) want to describe the real world. yours Keith Alexander [1] http://schemacache.test.talis.c

Re: attaching multiple licenses

2009-12-09 Thread Keith Alexander
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:40:28 -, Toby Inkster wrote: A better solution might be to publish your data in a format that can make use of multiple graphs. e.g. in N3: Unfortunately, most of the data formats with native support for named graphs do not have very good support in consuming sof

Re: Visualization of domain and range

2009-06-26 Thread Keith Alexander
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:16:36 +0100, Toby Inkster wrote: What needs to be communicated is that: [ a foaf:Agent ] foaf:holdsAccount [ a foaf:OnlineAccount ] . instead. Those triples are not actually in the ontology itself, but will be found (or at least implied) in any instance data that mak

Re: last.fm events RDFizing

2009-05-12 Thread Keith Alexander
On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:00:07 +0100, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Anyway, I think we have a nice starting point re. Music Data Space for getting so RDFizer collaboration going, hopefully, this will provide a best practices template (re. collaboration) to others across the LOD community :-) Wh

Re: last.fm events RDFizing

2009-05-12 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi Kingsley, How does this work under the hood? uriburner recognises the last.fm domain, and parses the URI to understand how to call the last.fm web service api? Then it passes the result to the stylesheet ? Normally uriburner would parse the microformats erdf and rdfa in the page right ?

Re: last.fm events RDFizing

2009-05-11 Thread Keith Alexander
events, btw? Sadly just upcoming events for artists, but venues have past events as well. Cheers! y Thanks, Keith Alexander

last.fm events RDFizing

2009-05-11 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi http://lastfm.rdfize.com/ RDFizes the last.fm events API and links to dbtune.org, the bbc, and dbpedia. The voiD document describing it is: http://lastfm.rdfize.com/meta.n3 Thanks, Keith Alexander

Re: Making RDF / LinkedData trivially browseable - thoughts?

2009-04-04 Thread Keith Alexander
ith ARC (http://arc.semsol.org/) in less than 5 steps. From there, the benefits of RDF made themselves apparent quite quickly :) And JSON is still good if it is RDF/JSON :) (especially with a JSONP option). Cheers, Keith Alexander -- --

Re: [call for comments] voiD 1.0

2009-01-30 Thread Keith Alexander
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:25:58 -, Simon Reinhardt wrote: Hi Simon, Keith Alexander wrote: Can you explain why you prefer sioc:has_container to dcterms:isPartOf ? Let's call it consistent use of a vocabulary. Since I'm using SIOC for lots of things in the platform anyway (

Re: [call for comments] voiD 1.0

2009-01-30 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi Simon, Thanks for the comments. I have changed the XSLT to use void:uriRegexPattern Can you explain why you prefer sioc:has_container to dcterms:isPartOf ? Keith On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:52:07 -, Simon Reinhardt wrote: Michael Hausenblas wrote: We are very pleased to announce the

Re: "VoCamp" - Proposal for a Vocabulary/Ontology Hackfest - Call for Expressions of Interest (was RE: [call for comments] voiD - vocabulary of interlinked datasets)

2008-06-11 Thread Keith Alexander
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:45:52 +0100, Tom Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Re venue and your proposal, that sounds great, if you fancy writing the reasoner capable of finding the optimum solution ;) Btw, it must also be able to take into account ease of travel connections, ease of finding a venue

Re: "VoCamp" - Proposal for a Vocabulary/Ontology Hackfest - Call for Expressions of Interest (was RE: [call for comments] voiD - vocabulary of interlinked datasets)

2008-06-11 Thread Keith Alexander
Yes, as Jun mentions, there is a proposal floating around for a "VoCamp" sometime in the near-ish future - basically a short, residential "hackfest" kind of event where people interested in creating vocabularies/lightweight ontologies for Linked Data/Semantic Web can get together with other mot

Re: [call for comments] voiD - vocabulary of interlinked datasets

2008-06-11 Thread Keith Alexander
you think additional provenance information is beyond the scope of voiD? Hi, Our aim is that existing vocabularies like DC be used where possible, and the primer Michael mentioned will hopefully give advice on which existing terms are most appropriate to use with the voiD vocabulary. In

Re: [call for comments] voiD - vocabulary of interlinked datasets

2008-06-11 Thread Keith Alexander
Hi, I think Yves' proposal kind of hits our complexity-line. Do you remember we drew something about the complexity that voiD is aiming to solve at the right corner of the poster? That might give people some idea the sort of the complexity we want to expose in voiD "at the starting point"