Mappify – DBpedia and Wikipedia to Topic Maps is the latest shot over the Topic Maps Lab bow! 😉
Toss a Wikipedia or DBpedia source at this service and get back a topic map! In one of four flavors: xtm, ctm, json, or jtm.
UPDATE: 26 June 2010 – The bug reported below has been fixed!
Warning You must use correct case for URLs.
Incorrect usage: Wikipedia URL for Marilyn Monroe, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_monroe. I did not notice that the page says: “(Redirected from Marilyn monroe).” Not much of a re-direct if it leaves me with the incorrect URL.
Correct the case on entries to match the page title above the redirect notice and you will be fine.
Correct usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe.
For those unfamiliar with our community, the “competition” between Semagia (Lars Heuer) and the Topic Maps Lab is entirely friendly. It just makes better copy to portray them as fierce competitors leap frogging each other with topic map technologies and resources.
Well, I’d consider it as a small bug in the service. The service should recognise that Marilyn_monroe redirects to Marilyn_Monroe and should inform the user about it.
Correct behaviour: Input: “Marilyn_monroe” -> service redirects to “Marilyn_Monroe”.
Currently, the service reads the DBpedia entry about “Marilyn_monroe” but does not recognise that there is an RDF predicate “redirects” which points to the correct name.
Anyway, the service is a prototype and needs more work.
Thanks for blogging about it 🙂
Comment by Lars Heuer — June 25, 2010 @ 4:57 pm
Okay, the bug is fixed. Try this:
You’ll get a redirect to
And finally, the topic map is returned
Comment by Lars Heuer — June 25, 2010 @ 6:26 pm
Okay, the bug is fixed. Try this:
http://ws.mappify.org/wp/url/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_monroe
You’ll get a redirect to
http://ws.mappify.org/wp/url/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
And finally, the topic map is returned
Comment by Lars Heuer — June 25, 2010 @ 6:26 pm
Have a look at the Marilyn Monroe map in Maiana:
http://maiana.topicmapslab.de/u/public/tm/marilyn-monroe/t/si%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMarilyn_Monroe
Comment by Lutz Maicher — July 4, 2010 @ 1:33 pm
Excellent!
I assume details are forthcoming? 😉
Thanks!
Patrick
Comment by Patrick Durusau — July 4, 2010 @ 8:09 pm