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LD-demo

LD-demo is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.

Simple demo about usage of Linked Data sources, storing data locally and few hacks to make this all work

This is a simple demo project about importing and (re)using linked open data sources.

Main idea

User enters name of some place (geographical areas are expected) and can see a list of videos about habitants of this area.

Requirements

  • Python 2.6
  • rdflib 3.0.0
  • Sesame 2.3.2

Preparations

  1. Load geospecies.org dataset in demo sesame repository.

General plan

  1. Search for given location name using geonames.org service. Result: list of all related locations from geanames dataset.
  2. Building a list of inhabit animals for all previously found locations. Result: list of all animals from geospecies dataset.
  3. Get rdf descrition of found animals from BCC's wildlife portal and looking for video clips about them in BBC archive.
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