[open-bibliography] Fwd: [LODLAM] Get Yourself a Linked Data Piece of WorldCat to Play With

Fri Aug 17 22:50:33 UTC 2012

Karen,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Luc, I think this reflects an answer to your question. As with much that
> happens in computer technology, some of us have to depend on others. I find
> making our wishes clear helps guide those kind souls who have the necessary
> skills. Maybe we can work further with Tom and others to spell out what we
> need for this to be usable for us.

Does having this data loaded into a triple store help you?  What types
of things would it enable?

It seems like it might be marginally better than a raw RDF file, but
it seems like it would still take a fair amount of work to do anything
useful with it.

Tom

p.s. I'm curious to see if the other Tom is able to load it using his
tools because it looks to me like it contains invalid URIs (embedded
spaces) which may cause RDF tools to choke depending on how picky they
are about parsing.

>
> What we still need in the RDF world is the application that would do for the
> Semantic Web what Mosaic did for the Web: make it viewable and usable by the
> non-programmer. But first we have to have an actual Semantic Web, and I
> think that's still in progress in a strict sense.
>
> kc
>
>
> On 8/17/12 10:31 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I'm in the process of putting up a triplestore w/ endpoint already. I
>> have no problem sending out a link.
>>
>> I'm in an all day meeting today, so it might not happen until the weekend.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Luc Gauvreau <lgovro at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lgovro at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Bonjour,
>>
>>     A very good question!
>>
>>     Multiple projects about linked datas and RDF, but who has the
>>     expertise to use it?
>>
>>     Only experts and "geeks"?
>>
>>     Is it possible for an "amateur" to use these kind of format, files
>>     and codes?
>>
>>     A kind of "Linked data and RDF for dummies" will be very usefull.
>>     Merci,
>>
>>     Luc Gauvreau
>>     (Montréal, Québec)
>>
>>
>>
>>     2012/8/17 Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net <mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net>>
>>
>>
>>         I would love it if someone could put this in a triple store for
>>         others to play with. How difficult is that?
>>
>>         kc
>>
>>
>>         On 8/17/12 8:58 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>>             ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>             From: Richard Wallis <richard.wallis at dataliberate.__com
>>             <mailto:richard.wallis at dataliberate.com>>
>>             Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM
>>             Subject: [LODLAM] Get Yourself a Linked Data Piece of
>>             WorldCat to Play With
>>             To: lod-lam at googlegroups.com <mailto:lod-lam at googlegroups.com>
>>
>>
>>             In case you missed the press release earlier this week.
>>
>>             You can now download a significant number of RDF triples
>>             describing
>>             the most highly held 1.2 million resources in WorldCat.
>>               Licensed
>>             under ODC-BY.
>>
>>             I've posted more details on my blog:
>>
>> http://dataliberate.com/2012/__08/get-yourself-a-linked-data-__piece-of-worldcat-to-play-__with/
>>
>>
>> <http://dataliberate.com/2012/08/get-yourself-a-linked-data-piece-of-worldcat-to-play-with/>
>>
>>             ~Richard
>>