Semantic Web this, Semantic Web that, what actual use is the Semantic Web in the real world? I mean how can you actually use it?
If you haven't heard the term "Semantic Web" over the last couple of years then you must have been in... well somewhere without this interweb they're all talking about.
Basically, by using metadata (see RDF), disparate bits of data floating around the web can be joined up. In otherwords they stop being disparate. Better than that, theoretically you can query the connections between the data and get lots of lovely information back. This last bit is done via SPARQL, and yes, the QL does stand for Query Language.
I say theoretically because in reality it's a bit of a pain. I may be an intelligent agent capable of finding linked bits of data through the web, but how exactly would you do that in python.
It is possible to use rdflib to find information, but it's very long winded. It's much easier to use SPARQLWrapper andin fact in the simple example below, I've used a SPARQLWrapperWrapper to make asking for lots of similarly sourced data, in this case DBPedia, even easier.
To use this try importing the DBpediaEndpoint and feeding it some SPARQL:
Your homework is - How do you identify the resource_uri in the first place?
That's for another evening.
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