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lcsh.info SPARQL endpoint

Monday, July 7, 2008

I’ve set up a SPARQL endpoint for lcsh.info at sparql.lcsh.info. If you are new to SPARQL endpoints, they are essentially REST web services that allow you to query a pool of RDF data using a query language that combines features of pattern matching, set logic and the web, and then get back results in [...]

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SKOS displays w/ SPARQL

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

I’m just in the process of getting my head around SPARQL a bit more. At $work, Clay and I ran up against a situation where we wanted a query that would return a subgraph from an entire SKOS concept scheme for any assertions involving a particular concept URI as the subject. Easy enough right?

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calais and ocr newspaper data

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Like you I’ve been reading about the new Reuters Calais Web Service. The basic gist is you can send the service text and get back machine readable data about recognized entities (personal names, state/province names, city names, etc). The response format is kind of interesting because it’s RDF that uses a bunch of homespun [...]

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