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Linked Data and culture — Semantic Web and user generated content in The Linking Open Data dataset

March 10, 2009
Topics: Collaboration, Labs, Linked Data, Open Source, Prototype, Services, Standards

PhotonQ-Tim Berners Lee on Linked Data at TEDImage by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE via Flickr

Culture!? Linked Data?! Ok, why not! Detailed information will be  soon available on http://linked-culture.net.

Linked Culture will provide Linked Data sets from user generated content found on websites like last.fm, tupalo.com, shnitzl.org, qype.com and a lot of alikes. Also editorial content from publishing companies — for example like SIMsKultur Online — and other providers of ebSemantics RDF data.

It’s like what DBpedia is for Wikipedia.

Linked Culture data will include at the beginning content from 50+ websites related to Venues, Events, Reviews, Locations, Ratings, Music, Movies in English and German.

All data will include Linked Data to DBpedia, Freebase, GeoNames, WorldFactBook, WordNet, Musicbrainz and others — owl:sameAs.

Like with Zemanta it is a breeze to enrich the content of your blog posts not only semantically and like OpenCalais want to make all the world’s content more accessible, interoperable and valuable we aim to provide the most comprehensive Linked Data set for Venues/Locations, Events/Menues and Reviews/Ratings worldwide.

An example:

Susi Sorglos, a girl in Vienna, 27 years old. She’s from Berlin. Now studying some nice stuff in the beautiful blue Danube city in Austria.

She wants to meet some friends from University. They don’t know where to go. No problem. Ask the net. As a local in Berlin it was easy to find insider information about the city, now as a stranger in a new place it’s harder to know about what’s going on.

From friends they have a recommendation for the “Arena Wien”. What’s next? What’s going on there? What do our friends know about this venue? What are the friends of our friends thinking about the events there? How to get there by public transport?

A lot of questions.

Ok, how can Linked Culture help?

Here we go:

There is information about Arena Wien available on a lot of websites. Which one to consult? Ask Google? Ask Yahoo!? Ask Lycos? Ask A9? Ask ask.com?!?

You know you want to go to Arena Wien in Vienna. Google told you: arena.co.at

So. Let’s go. But wait: Results 1 - 10 from about 372.000 for arena wien. sh*t.

Would be nice to find all *relevant* information in one place — or use SPARQL to explore ;)

With Linked Culture you will find relevant information/reviews/events for Arena Wien, the event location in Vienna, Austria. For example Linked Data from these sites:

Susi Sorglos also likes going to the cinema. She loves Twitter, too.

Wouldn’t it be nice to find new friends on Twitter? From the same region. Who likes the same movies or suggestes new ones?

How to achieve this? We are going to extract Linked Data from Twitter and match it with the Linked Culture cloud. First proof of concepts are available with Benjamin Nowack’s #smesher.

The Linked Data information about current playing movies (= events) and the cinemas (= venues) is provided from Google Movie and Yahoo! Trailer database.

Afterwards they could go to a nice Restaurant. You know. They found it on tupalo.com ;)

Happy semantic end for Susi Sorglos & her friends.

Available countries at the beginning

  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • New Zealand
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America

Upcoming Linked Culture events

  • April 09: Kick-off brunch. Café Hawelka, Vienna, AT
  • June 09: Semantic Gentlemen’s Evening. #SemTech, San Jose, USA
  • August 09: Developer #beachcamp. Larnaca, CY
  • September 09: Triplification Challenge. I-Semantics 09, Graz, AT
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