Interconnection

We interconnected our data to other related items, in particular to authorities for names (people, places, subjects) and to other resources, creating semantic associations.

Plucky’s way of linking data in an open way was inspired by the OWL and FOAF ontologies. Specifically, we widely re-used the attributes owl:sameAs and foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf. In this way, we were able to connect our RDF/XML files to other sources and repositories of knowledge such as DBpedia, Wikidata etc.

Below you can find a few examples of the URIs we invented:

1. CONCEPT
Second Industrial Revolution: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/SecondIndustrialRevolution
2. DATE
1873: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/1873>
3. PERSON
Nellie Bly: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/NellieBly
4. PLACE
Brindisi: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/Brindisi

In the following, you can find specific details of the kind of semantic interconnection we employed for each of the different types of entities:

1. CONCEPT - Second Industrial Revolution

URI: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/SecondIndustrialRevolution

By using <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="">, a property of OWL Ontology, and <foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf rdf:resource="">, we connected this URI with multiple other resources, including:

1) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://ushistoryscene.com/article/second-industrial-revolution/”
meaning that the URI of the Second Industrial Revolution is connected to the Second Industrial Revolution's record in U.S. History Scene, a multimedia education website.

2) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-second-industrial-revolution-timeline-inventions.html”
meaning that the URI of the Second Industrial Revolution is connected to the Second Industrial Revolution's record in Study.com, an online educational platform.

3) foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf rdf:resource="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Industrial_Revolution"
meaning that the URI of the Second Industrial Revolution is connected to the Second Industrial Revolution's record in Wikipedia, specifically as the primary topic of that Wikipedia page.

Find these and other connections in the RDF/XML for the Second Industrial Revolution:

2. DATE - 1873

URI: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/1873

By using <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="">, a property of OWL Ontology, and <foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf rdf:resource="">, we connected this URI with multiple other resources, including:

1) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7757”
meaning that the URI of 1873 is connected to 1873's record in Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base.

2) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="https://cs.dbpedia.org/page/1873”
meaning that the URI of 1873 is connected to 1873's record in DBpedia, a website containing a knowledge-base.

3) foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf rdf:resource="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873"
meaning that the URI of 1873 is connected to 1873's record in Wikipedia, specifically as the primary topic of that specific Wikipedia page.

Find these and other connections in the RDF/XML for 1873:

3. PERSON - Nellie Bly

URI: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/NellieBly

By using <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="">, a property of OWL Ontology, we connected this URI with multiple other resources, including:

1) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="https://viaf.org/viaf/816475/”
meaning that the URI of Nellie Bly is connected to Nellie Bly's record in VIAF, an international authority database.

2) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230299”
meaning that the URI of Nellie Bly is connected to Nellie Bly's record in Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base.

3) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://dbpedia.org/page/Nellie_Bly/”
meaning that the URI of Nellie Bly is connected to Nellie Bly's record in DBpedia, a website containing a knowledge-base.

Find these and other connections in the RDF/XML for Nellie Bly:

4. PLACE - Brindisi

URI: www.semanticweb.org/plucky/Brindisi

By using <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="">, a property of OWL Ontology, we connected this URI with multiple other resources, including:

1) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13496”
meaning that the URI of Brindisi is connected to Brindisi's record in Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base.

2) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://dati.isprambiente.it/id/place/brindisi/html”
meaning that the URI of Brindisi is connected to Brindisi's record in ISPRA (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale), an Italian public research institution which through the project Linked ISPRA is providing its geographic data in a LOD manner.

3) owl:sameAs rdf:resource="http://linkedgeodata.org/page/triplify/node68528589”
meaning that the URI of Brindisi is connected to Brindisi's record in LinkedGeoData, a website containing an RDF knowledge base which attempts at adding a spatial dimension to the Semantic Web.

Find these and other connections in the RDF/XML for Brindisi: