beckr.org | Christian Becker » flickr http://beckr.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:14:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= flickr™ wrappr http://beckr.org/2007/10/12/flickr%e2%84%a2-wrappr/ http://beckr.org/2007/10/12/flickr%e2%84%a2-wrappr/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:27:44 +0000 cbecker http://christianhbecker.com/2007/10/12/flickr%e2%84%a2-wrappr/ 40.000 seats, born in a country with >10M inhabitants. I recently added support for geo-coordinates to DBpedia and built the [...]]]> DBpedia extracts structured information from Wikipedia and publishes it as RDF. This allows for incredible queries against Wikipedia data, such as Soccer player with tricot nr. 11, playing for a club having a stadium with >40.000 seats, born in a country with >10M inhabitants.
I recently added support for geo-coordinates to DBpedia and built the flickrâ„¢ wrappr, a proof-of-concept work that provides photos for a given Wikipedia article using geo-coordinates and multilingual labels. The benefit: It is a fairly efficient and accurate way for a machine to find a picture of something. It is now part of the W3C SWEO Linking Open Data community project.

I really like the pictures it finds for the Eiffel Tower:
flickrâ„¢ wrappr Screenshot

Update (04/10/2008): ReadWriteWeb says "This is pure geek hotness", and Tim Berners-Lee says “This is a neat addition”!
Update: Mashup of the day at ProgrammableWeb (10/17/2007) and at Mashup Awards (01/10/2008)!

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