In this blog post, the author proposes that DBpedia may be the best source of reusable URIs when one is seeking to describe entities in Linked Open Data. He shares a script for a SPARQL query that selects preferred and alternative labels for a group of DBpedia entries at once. Taking this a step further and adding a few SKOS properties to the mix, a single query can pull data from DBpedia to populate a SKOS-based thesaurus with preferred and alternative labels.
URL: http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2011/02/pulling-skos-preflabel-and-alt.html
Keywords: DBpedia, Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), SPARQL, Controlled vocabulary
Author: DuCharme, Bob
Date created: 2011-02-22 05:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P10M
- Knows Simple Knowledge Organization System, or SKOS (2009), an RDF vocabulary for expressing concepts that are labeled in natural languages, organized into informal hierarchies, and aggregated into co
- Knows the "five stars" of Open Data: put data on the Web, preferably in a structured and preferably non-proprietary format, using URIs to name things, and link to other data.
- Uses CONSTRUCT to extract and transform results into a single RDF graph specified by a graph template.