Re: Semantic Bleachers: was Re: Afghanistan War Diary as topic map in Maiana

Hi Patrick,

[...]
> Well, but I am not unsympathetic to choosing the Afghanistan War Diary
> as a possible topic map, to be embellished by others. 

Go ahead! :)

[...]
>> I'd suggest to create a proper translation of DBpedia to Topic Maps.
>> DBpedia has become a focal point of LOD and if Topic Maps want to play
[...]
> <sarcasm about LOD and DBpedia deleted/>

:))

> What would you suggest as a "mappish view on that data" or what
> information should we look at adding to it?

Well, the first step would be a view but editing / adding data would
be possible. I choose DBpedia because the barrier to make something
with DBpedia and Topic Maps is very low. Mappify does already a bit
with DBpedia but neither the mapping is complete nor does it do
anything useful beside translating an RDF syntax to a Topic Maps
syntax with a fixed mapping. It doesn't has to be DBpedia, we could
also use Wikipedia directly, but DBpedia does already the extraction
job for us.

Anyway, I am not searching for yet another Topic Maps project. If you
provide a better/richer mapping of the "Afghanistan War Diary" without
that many dead ends (occurrences) I'd cooperate with you. ;)

Best regards,
Lars
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