[open-linguistics] LingHub - moving away from DataHub, but keeping the good things

Thu Dec 19 13:57:02 UTC 2013

Hi everybody,

IIRC, I promised during the last telco to follow up on the discussion 
about whether DataHub is enough for our purposes.
We just submitted a draft to the European Data Forum 
(http://2014.data-forum.eu), yesterday.
The draft can be accessed here:
http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2014/EDF_LingHub/LingHub_public.pdf

I already sent several emails to the DataHub lists[1,2], but I never 
received any answer. The thing that annoys me the most is that we -- as 
the DBpedia Project -- seem to be unable to properly represent our data 
in the DataHub at all, compare:
http://datahub.io/dataset/dbpedia
vs. the actual data: http://downloads.dbpedia.org/

After several emails now and also 4 or 5 personal conversations, it 
seems as if the DataHub community is not moving in our direction.

Therefore, we decided to create a prototype based on OntoWiki + several 
extensions and data analysis tools + guidelines for vocabularies to use 
to describe data (see the attached paper for a more detailed analysis): 
http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2014/EDF_LingHub/LingHub_public.pdf

We hope that this will give us the necessary features and flexibility to 
finally get rid of our Google Spreadsheet[3] , which we created in 
parallel to DataHub already, as data entry was much more convenient.

Note that our solution will be backward compatible. So we can 
theoretically push all dataset descriptions in LingHub to DataHub again.

All the best,
Sebastian

[1] 
https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/datahub-discuss/2013-October/000013.html
[2] https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2012-September/003042.html
[3] 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlMk5ouIspH1dGx1R1Rnd1ZXX0xmLXppSWFrcm0wNFE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

-- 
Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Events:
* *30th January, 2014*: 1st DBpedia Community meeting 
(http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings)
* *Sept. 2014* MLODE
Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, 
http://linguistics.okfn.org, http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Stop asking, it's here:
http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary
http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis
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