Tagged: Linked Data

Sync between LGD and WikiData 2

Mapping Local Government Directory to WikiData

The Indian government maintains the directory and hierarchy of local governments and administrative areas in India called the Local Government Directory (LGD). Recently I wanted to map them to WikiData items. This means I wanted to map the administrative areas in the local government to items on WikiData. Update them if necessary.

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Getting started with RDF using Blazegraph

Table of Contents1 Semantic Web, Triple and Triplestore2 Blazegraph2.1 Download and install the database.2.2 Import some data3 Next – SPARQL This started as a simple exercise of querying WikiData database using their SPQRQL query service. That lead me to studying about RDF and Triplets. I found it very interesting. I spent hours on...

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Trying WikiData

I just finished a small personal data project. Once it was done. I wanted to modify it to use data from WikiData, and I wanted the labels in Kannada. So I tried to get a list of districts and wards from WikiData. That lead me to learn SPARQL. I can’t say I am...