Presenting LOD-enabled version of Google Refine for linking and extending data with DBpedia

1. You
rang,
M’LOD?
ì
Google
Refine
in
the
world
of
LOD
Mateja
Verlic
Seman/c
Tech
&
Business
Conference
June
3-­‐7,
2012
|
San
Francisco

2. 2
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2012
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7,
2012

3. 3
Google
Refine
ì What
we’ve
seen
so
far
ì Messy
data
gone
clean
ì Filtering,
faceted
browsing
ì Edi/ng
cells
and
columns,
clustering,
expor/ng
ì Bulk
transforma/ons
ì History
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2012
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7,
2012

4. 4
…
and
the
powerful
dark
side
ì Reconcilia/on
ì Extending
data
ì Regular
expressions
ì Integrated
GREL
commands
ì Jython
ì Extensions
(actually
not
so
many
of
them)
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June
3-­‐7,
2012
June
7,
2012

5. 5
LOD2
ì Crea/ng
knowledge
out
of
Interlinked
Data
ì EU
FP7
project
ì 15
partners
ì LOD2
in
a
:
LOD2
is
like
Batman
and
Robin:
business
and
academics
-­‐
mighty
tools
and
a
bunch
of
real
&
good
use
cases
supported
by
science
for
success.
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2012
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7,
2012

6. 6
Linked
Open
Data
ì Distributed
data,
different
sources,
formats
ì Open
Government
data
ì Open
Data
Business
&
Business
of
Open
Data
ì CKAN
ì LOD2:
hap://www.lod2.eu
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3-­‐7,
2012
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7,
2012

7. 7
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Technology
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3-­‐7,
2012
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7,
2012

8. 8
LODGrefine
ì LOD-­‐friendly
GoogleRefine
extensions
ì RDF
extension
hap://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/grefine-­‐rdf-­‐extension/
ì DBpedia
extension
ì LODGrefine:
Google
Refine
+
integrated
extensions
©2012
Seman/c
Technology
Conference
June
3-­‐7,
2012
June
7,
2012

9. 9
LODGrefine
toolbox
ì Google
Refine
func/onali/es
+
ì Registering
reconcilia/on
service
based
on
a
SPARQL
endpoint,
RDF
dump
or
Sindice
search
ì RDF
Export
ì Extending
reconciled
column
with
data
from
DBpedia
ì Extrac/ng
en//es
from
full
text
using
Zemanta
API
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Technology
Conference
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3-­‐7,
2012
June
7,
2012

10. 10
Mechanical
Future
ì Integra/on
with
Amazon
Mechanical
Turk?
ì Leveraging
crowd
intelligence
ì Do
Workers
dream
reconciled
data?
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Technology
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June
3-­‐7,
2012
June
7,
2012

11. 11
Short
Summary
ì Google
Refine
-­‐
what
we
had
ì LOD
1st
class
ci/zen
in
GR
-­‐
what
we
wanted
ì Google
Refine
extension(s)
-­‐
what
we
did
ì LODGrefine
-­‐
what
we
have
ì Mechanical
future
–
what
(we
think)
we
want
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3-­‐7,
2012
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7,
2012

12. 12
Demo
#1
ì Pimp
my
data
under
10
minutes:
A
showcase
how
to
convert
data
from
a
website
into
a
linked
dataset
under
10
minutes.
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Technology
Conference
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3-­‐7,
2012
June
7,
2012

13. 13
Demo
#2
ì Yes,
we
C(K)AN:
Conver/ng
one
of
the
CKAN
Open
Data
datasets
into
a
LOD
dataset
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Technology
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2012
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7,
2012

14. 14
Thank
you
Mateja
Verlic
E-­‐mail:
mateja.verlic@zemanta.com
Web:
hap://www-­‐zemanta.com
LODGrefine:
hap://code.zemanta.com/sparkica
Twiaer:
@sparkica
©2012
Seman/c
Technology
Conference
June
3-­‐7,
2012
June
7,
2012