Extracting the commons

DBpedia Commons: Structured Multimedia Metadata from the Wikimedia Commons

The Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of over twenty-five million freely usable audio, video and still image files, including scanned books, historically significant photographs, animal recordings, illustrative figures and maps. Being volunteer-contributed, these media files have different amounts of descriptive metadata with varying degrees of accuracy. The DBpedia Information Extracti...

Web Data Commons - Extracting Structured Data from Two Large Web Corpora

More and more websites embed structured data describing for instance products, people, organizations, places, events, resumes, and cooking recipes into their HTML pages using encoding standards such as Microformats, Microdatas and RDFa. The Web Data Commons project extracts all Microformat, Microdata and RDFa data from the Common Crawl web corpus, the largest and most up-todata web corpus that ...

Grazing the Budgetary Commons:

Sharing the Network Commons

The University provides computing and network facilities to its members as part of their common working environment. For this commons to be shared fairly and safely, it is important that all members understand how the network should be used, what risks may be associated with it, and how these risks are to be minimised. This paper provides an overview of the University’s network, our various net...

The Information Commons Gazetteer

Advances in location aware computing and the convergence of geographic and textual information systems will require a comprehensive, extensible, information rich framework called the Information Commons Gazetteer, that can be freely disseminated to small devices in a modular fashion. This paper describes the infrastructure and datasets used to create such a resource. The Gazetteer makes use of ...