NYTimes Has Gone LOD (Linked Open Data) (data.nytimes.com)

21 points by abdels 16y ago ↗ HN

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Would be cool to integrate this into a Twitter news/meme app ... ala YC RFS3

could be cool but it looks like they're only releasing a tiny amount of data to start with as a sampler... somebody needs to tell them about wikipedia

abdels 16y ago ↗

I think they're working with the people at Freebase to release more in due time. In fact this podcast goes into more details about how Freebase is working with people like the NYTimes. Podcast: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.INNO-... Podcast source uri: http://bit.ly/4zJPB1

wgj 16y ago ↗

Does Wikipedia have RDF or other semantic format?

abdels 16y ago ↗

yup they do, in the form of DBPedia, http://dbpedia.org/About

wgj 16y ago ↗

Thanks

tuukkah 16y ago ↗

The terminology is still a bit in a flux: The practise is usually called just Linked Data, and it builds on the Semantic Web technologies. The goal is a Web of Data that interlinks with the current Web (of documents). The W3C community project for publishers bootstrapping this web is called Linking Open Data.

Sound bite: Linked Data is the Semantic Web done right, and the Web done right. —Tim Berners-Lee

Recent academic review article: http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-li...

My Linked Data related projects: http://irc.sioc-project.org/ (irc logging) http://smob.sioc-project.org/ (microblogging), http://fenfire.org/ (Linked Data browser/editor GUI) http://github.com/tuukka/arc2-starter-pack (app template)

wicknicks 16y ago ↗

This is the linked data version of wikipedia -- http://dbpedia.org/About.