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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:05:52 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:25:52 +0000

“should the push be for open data”?

yes.

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Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:02:54 +0000

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By: Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:27:22 +0000

I can’t agree with Kingsley on the prospect of simply turning CSV into RDF. Of course you can do it mechanically, just as we routinely convert CSV to say XML. But data in the format of RDF triples is no more linked data than XML is if the vocabulary and the URIs are purely local. Data only becomes linked when URIs denoting resources, predicates and types are shared between data sets. This is hard work because it involves a deep understanding of the semantics of both local terms and resources and the target terms and resources, and as we have seen, that can be just plain hard work. We know all this from the difficult of integrating databases even within a company. I find it strange that some think its going to be easy to integrate dataset across the world.

Tools like David Huynh’s Freebase Gridworks http://blog.freebase.com/2010/03/26/preview-freebase-gridworks/ are powerful data editors but even they do not really tackle the task of semantic alignment. The editor tool is human-guided (which raised questions about the repeatability of the mapping when the underlying dataset has to be re-imported) and currently only maps to one dataset, Freebase.

Chris

By: Chris Rusbridge

Chris Rusbridge — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Have you seen Bill Roberts post on a proposed tool to convert other forms of data to RDF? See http://www.webofdatablog.com/articles/got-data-want-linked-data?

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