
SameAs4J: little drops of water make the mighty ocean
July 5, 2010
That reminded me that, few months ago, I did for sameas.org the same thing Milan did for us. But (ashamed) I never informed those guys about what I did.
Sameas.org is a great and extremely useful tool on the Web that makes concretely possible to interlink different Linked data clouds. Simple to use (both for humans via HTML and for machines with a simple HTTP/JSON API) and extremely reactive, it allows to get all the owl:sameAs object for a given URI. And, moreover, it’s based on Sindice.com.
Do you want to know the identifier of http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rome in Freebase or Yago? Just ask it to Sameas.org.
So, after some months I just refined a couple of things, added some javadocs, set up a Maven repository and made SameAs4j publicly available (MIT licensed) to everyone on Google Code.
It’s a simple but reliable tiny set of Java classes that allows you to interact with sameas.org programatically in your Java Semantic Web applications.
Back to the beginning: every pieces of open source software is like a little drop of water which makes the mighty ocean, so please submit any issue or patch if interested.
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