Uberblic Search API

[georgi.k...@gmx.de]

Hello,

there's a new Uberblic Search API [1] which aims to make the life
easier for developers who want to build tagging & search interfaces on
top of the uberblic data repository. Or who want a Search API with
just a little semantics for finding named entites in data sources like
Wikipedia, Geonames, Foursquare, Musicbrainz, ...

The API supports simple lookup queries, but also a bit more "semantic"
queries. It's like my lookup.dbpedia.org service on steroids...


Looking for the URI of the company Starbucks as defined in Wikipedia?
"source:[enwikipedia] type:[uo:Company] Starbucks"

Or, you know, that movie with Bill Murray and Scarlett ... what's her
last name?
"type:[uo:Film] starring:[Bill Murray] starring:[Scarlett]"

The API supports type-ahead / autocomplete interfaces as well.
So if you want an autocomplete-enabled search box for Bill Murray
movies, just prefix your query with "type:[uo:Film] starring:[Bill
Murray]"

Try it out by copying that query into the search box at http://platform.uberblic.org
and start typing movie names...


Read more about the new API and let me know what you think:
http://uberblic.org/2010/07/uberblic-search-api-just-enough-semantics/


Best,
Georgi


[1] http://uberblic.org/developers/apis/search/

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Georgi Kobilarov
Uberblic Labs Berlin
http://kobilarov.com