Linked Data-aware

Or, use content negotiation. For example at the command line: Where does this co-reference data come from? Well, this is rather a long story, as we did not set out to provide this service. But if I tell you the story, you might be able to assess the utility of it in your context. As part of the RKBExplorer work, we needed to be able to manage co-re... ference between triplestores (see related publications ). We had an existing infrastructure for doing this, the Co-Reference Service (CRS), and we populated these CRSes with the co-reference data we were generating on RKBExplorer.com. As the RKBExplorer application became more sophisticated, we needed to know co-reference information with other sites such as dbpedia and http://data.semanticweb.org/ . This enabled us to use information such as descriptions from wikipedia/dbpedia, and the information on conferences and foaf relationships. However, long ago we discovered that getting things even slightly wrong can cause serious problems once the "network effect" that we are seeking comes into play. A seemingly trivial problem of a source telling us that two different people with the same name are the same person can result in our network relationships between entities that are related to them being badly misrepresented. Such problems would not arise if the raw data is simply being presented. So I set out to gather co-referent information from sources I thought were sufficiently accurate for my purposes. I started with the data we already had, and indeed are still generating. I then went to the Linked Data cloud, and harvested from the RDF dumps and SPARQL endpoints that I deemed to be satisfactory. In addition I approached some people who were not publishing in a form I could easily harvest already, such as David Baxter of Opencyc , and asked them to provide the data to me directly. I have avoided spidering the web for arbitrary data, and indeed would suggest that other Semantic Web search engines are a much better source for this than I can possibly provide. The ...Read More