Linking your Geonames place from your FOAF file
Now that we have a large database of places on the Semantic Web, I want to link to my place from my FOAF file.
To find a place, go to geonames.org, enter the name in the search box, find the right place on the result page.
Click the small multicolored place markers near the left border (not the place name). A map will appear, with a marker and box showing the place.
The box contains a link “semantic web rdfâ€. Copy the link. That’s your place.
I added this triple to my personal RDF data:
<http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf#cygri>
foaf:based_near <http://ws.geonames.org/rdf?geonameId=2950159> .
Now, when I load my URI in Tabulator, it lets me navigate from my profile up the geographical hierarchy from the city of Berlin to the federal state of Berlin to the country of Germany to the continent of Europe.
I’m not perfectly happy with using foaf:based_near, because I’m not based near Berlin, dammit, I’m based right in the middle of it. Is there a more appropriate and reasonably well-established property?
October 14th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
[...] Thanks to the Geonames Ontology, contributed by Bernard Vatant, all geonames features now have a RDF description for the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web aims to bring structure to the Web and make its content easily readable by machines. The semantic web is sometimes referred to as Web3.0. The balloon on the geonames map display has received two new menus for ‘perma link’ and ’semantic web rdf’. Harry Chen has a good introduction to the Geonames Ontology on the Geospatial Semantic Web Blog. Richard Cyganiak writes in his blog “This is an excellent example of a Semantic Web site done right. Well, almost right …” and in an other posting he describes how to use the Semantic Web URI of a geonames feature with a FOAF file : Now, when I load my URI in Tabulator, it lets me navigate from my profile up the geographical hierarchy from the city of Berlin to the federal state of Berlin to the country of Germany to the continent of Europe. Posted by marc Filed in Uncategorized [...]
October 21st, 2006 at 9:29 am
[...] With feedback and help from the blogosphere we have updated the geonames ontology and fixed some flaws in the corresponding web service. The ontology now includes linked data such as contains (administrative divisions), neighbours (for features with a boundary) or nearby features. The web service is using two URIs to clearly distinguish between Concept (the thing as is) and Document (the document about it). [...]
June 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
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January 29th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
“I’m not perfectly happy with using foaf:based_near, because I’m not based near Berlin, dammit, I’m based right in the middle of it. Is there a more appropriate and reasonably well-established property?”
Hehe, an old entry but at least I can answer your question with yes, there is a better way and you already know it. Actually the Tagcrumbs.com RDF provides a linkage from a random place to its Geonames ID. Be at least a bit proud to live in the city of Berlin (or Galway).
Cornelius.