Might be worth pointing out that not only do the BBC take data from
Wikipedia in this way, they have also put a major effort into updating
Wikipedia itself and so ensuring complete coverage and factual
correctness for the wildlife data. A virtuous circle :-)
Graham
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Owen Stephens
Sent: 20 May 2011 15:21
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Accessing library resources through Wikipedia?
The BBC Wildlife finder uses dbpedia/wikipedia - e.g. see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Arctic_Fox - which pulls in information
from Wikipedia. You can see the underlying data using
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Arctic_Fox.rdf - which includes a
'sameAs' assertion to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Arctic_Fox
Note that the BBC is not exclusively using Wikipedia in terms of exernal
'authority' sources. It also uses MusicBrainz for information on their
/music site - e.g.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/f181961b-20f7-459e-89de-920ef03c7ed0#
p00h1fzr
There is more information at
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/BBC/ which notes that
they don't only display information from external sources, but use it to
enhance their search behind the scenes.
Owen
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On 20 May 2011, at 15:02, Joe Hourcle wrote:
> On May 19, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Tod Matola wrote:
>
>> There is a problem, the wikipedia policy prevent organizations for
adding
>> large volumes of links to services, I think to prevent commercial
entities
>> from polluting the data with bogus links or advertisements for their
>> products. OCLC is no exception, we have tried for years.
>>
>> VIAF is using dbpedia to add links to the VIAF authorities data, so
there is
>> a work already taking place at finding some of the personal names. I
don't
>> think you can push stuff back to wikipedia via dbpedia.
>>
>> I think that OCLC tries to link out to libraries via things like
google
>> books or openLibrary find in a library links. These links are based
on
>> holdings that are told and maintained in WorldCat, as creating dead
ends for
>> things that are not known to be held doesn't really seem useful. I
don't
>> believe there is an effective way to crawl libraries for holdings, so
it is
>> based on the members.
>>
>> I do think the concept of authority control for wikipedia is a really
cool
>> idea and would be useful (like it has in libraries for decades).
>
>
> At the IA Summit, Mike Atherton from the BBC gave a talk 'Beyond the
> Polar Bear', and mentioned that they were using dbpedia as the
> authority for some of the things they were tracking (food items?,
> sorry, my brain's a bit foggy, as it was almost 2 months ago)
>
> An earlier version of his talk is up on SlideShare:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/reduxd/beyond-the-polar-bear
>
> And I guess other people liked the talk, too, as ASIS&T is having
> him do it yet again as a webinar next week:
>
>
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/beyond-the-polar-bear.html
>
> (Thursday, May 26th, 11:30AM EDT, $25 members, $59 non-members)
>
> ...
>
> Now, once people are using DBpedia for this sort of thing, as I assume
> the URL in wikipedia is what's being used as the identifier, there
> shouldn't be anything to prevent someone making a plug-in for
> browsers that'd then be able to find sites like OCLC or BBC who
> are using DBpedia in this way.
>
> -Joe
Received on Fri May 20 2011 - 10:58:42 EDT