answers to usual issues in getting started with consuming linked data
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This slideset was part of our "How to consume Linked Data" tutorial at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Oct. 2009TRANSCRIPT
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
GettingStarted
Issues people have when they want to start
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Getting Started
Finding URIs
Finding Additional Data
Finding SPARQL Endpoints
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding URIs
● Problem: What URIs exist that identify the thing I'm interested in?
● Two options:● Data source specific solutions● Search engines for the Web of Linked Data
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding URIs
● Some Linked Data sources provide a keyword-based search for things in their dataset(s)● RKB Explorer http://www.rkbexplorer.com/● DBpedia http://lookup.dbpedia.org/
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding URIs
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding URIs
● What if there is no search possibility?● You may try a SPARQL query:
SELECT DISTINCT ?s WHERE { ?s rdfs:label ?label . FILTER regex( str(?label), "Berlin", "i" ) .}
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding URIs
● Search engines for the Web of Linked Data provide keyword-based search for things in different datasets● Falcons http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/● Sindice http://sindice.com● SWSE http://www.swse.org● Watson http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding URIs
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding URIs
● There are also APIs● Falcons
http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/api/index.jsp● Sindice
http://sindice.com/developers/api● Watson
http://watson.kmi.open.ac.uk/REST_API.html
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <foaf:Document rdf:about="http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/api/objectsearch.jsp?query=Berlin"> <dc:description>Provides at most 10 objects hit by the query Berlin.</dc:description> <dc:title>Objects hit by the query Berlin</dc:title> <dc:creator>Falcons API</dc:creator> </foaf:Document> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Berlin"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Berlin"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:People_from_Berlin"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.deadjournal.com/interests.bml?int=berlin"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://dbtune.org/jamendo/tag/berlin"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bookmashup/subject/Berlin"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.liveinternet.ru/journal_interest.php?interestid=51320"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://wiki.sembase.at/index.php/_Berlin"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Berlin_U-Bahn_stations"/> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Berlin_culture"/> </rdf:Seq></rdf:RDF>
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Getting Started
Finding URIs
Finding Additional Data
Finding SPARQL Endpoints
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding Additional Data
● Problem: Given a URI, where do I find more data as what is available by looking it up?
● Three options:● Follow links (e.g. rdfs:seeAlso, owl:sameAs)● Use a co-reference service● Use a search engine for the Web of Linked Data
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding Additional Data
● Co-reference services find different URIs that refer to the same thing● sameAs http://sameas.org
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding Additional Data
● There is also an API
● Specify the preferred format in the URI
● Use content negotiation
http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Berlin
http://sameas.org/n3?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Berlin
http://sameas.org/json?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Berlin
GET /?uri=http://dbpedia.org/... HTTP/1.1Host: sameas.orgAccept: application/rdf+xml
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding Additional Data
● Search engines for the Web of Linked Data provide URI-based search for data from different sources● Sindice http://sindice.com
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Getting Started
Finding URIs
Finding Additional Data
Finding SPARQL Endpoints
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ISWC 2009 Tutorial "How to Consume Linked Data on the Web"
Finding SPARQL Endpoints
● Look at: http://esw.w3.org/topic/SparqlEndpoints
● SPARQL 1.1 Service Description● Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets (voiD)