The Unofficial :BaseKB Browsing Interface
(It pays to look at your Twitter stream)
I was launching yet another site and I was looking for a place to (visually) link :BaseKB identifiers to. I could have linked them to Freebase, but I wanted something that was RDF native.
Well, I did some searching on my twitter feed and found an tweet from the irrepressible Kingsley Idehen and discovered that he'd . . .
Identifiers in Freebase
... how they look from RDF
Prelude
Most Linked Data sets represent links to the outside world in a format like
:internalResource owl:sameAs external:thatResource .
where owl:sameAs could be replaced by some other predicate which is not so problematic in its definition. When data is linked so, you have many options for integration, such as loading . . .
Announcing Legal Entity Identifier Search
Yet Another New Site
I'd like to announce a new site for looking up Legal Entity Indentifiers.
this is the first consumer-facing site I've done in a while. It's a simple site right now, but I made an effort to make the site insanely fast by implementing the SPDY protocol and taking advantage of new developments in AWS that can give . . .
Compound Value Types in RDF
... like blank nodes, just not blank
Prelude
Most facts can be expressed as a single triple of the form
:subject :predicate :object .
for instance,
:Colorado :partOf :United_States .
On the other thing, some relationships fundamentally involve more than one thing and some variables change rapidly as a function of time, and in those . . .
How to introspect the Freebase schema with SPARQL
... as well as other RDF databases
Prelude
This post is a followup to How to write SPARQL queries against Freebase data and is part of a series. Subscribe to the RSS feed and to the :BaseKB mailing list for future episodes.
The data set I'm using is the 2014-03-02 edition of :BaseKB Gold. You can download this via Bittorrent and load it into any . . .
How to write SPARQL queries against Freebase data
:BaseKB unleashed
Overview
Freebase RDF data is clean and well-organized, so it can be straightforward to write queries if you understand how. Although a "cookbook" on the subject doesn't yet exist, this post describes the minimum you need to know to write SPARQL queries against Freebase data.
What to load
Cisco Routers in the AWS Cloud
Hardware company finds Software is a "better business"
AWS Summit 2014
One of the reasons I went to the AWS Summit was to discover success stories for vendors in the AWS Marketplace, and I was not disappointed. In one presentation, a representative Cisco gave a talk about the CSR1000v cloud router, which they claim has sold over 400 licenses to date. If those licenses were all . . .