Ivan's Blog

I regularly follow the updates on the “Books on Semantic Web” wiki page. I just found out that for most of the books a new entry has been added: a reference to the book mashup service of Chris Bizer & friends. It is really a great service, thanks Chris!

The only disadvantage is that the various RDF references are spread over the wiki page, so it is not easy to make, for example, SPARQL queries over the whole list of books. To make this easier I made a small python program that simply collects all mashup data for the books on the wiki, merges them into one, and puts the result back on the Web as one RDF resource. The script is ran once a day, so there might be a bit of delay when updating the book list. (I could have added it as a CGI script, and I may do it at some point; the problem is that collecting all the data takes quite a long time, so it is not ideal as a service…)