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CrunchBase to Linked Data Transformation Examples
Crunchbase holds information about the company Google.
Initial CrunchBase Profile Page
Here we see the Google company's data. We can look for a specific company's details and Right-Click (or Ctrl-Click on Mac) on and then click on "View Page Description" to obtain a descriptions of the resources available on the linked page:
CrunchBase Company Page Transformation
This displays a description of the resource Metadata available on the page.
Virtuoso Sponger offers the powerful feature of showing labels for Object IDs.
Here the Object ID for the Crunchbase Page about Google is http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/http/www.crunchbase.com/company/google
This Object ID resolves to the actual Representation of the Object indirectly i.e., The Name -> Address -> Data
CrunchBase Data Object that represents an Organization
Via the primary topic relation, there is another Object that Represents Google the organization. The ID of this Object is: http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/entity/http/www.crunchbase.com/company/google
Alternative Follow-Your-Nose friendly view of a CrunchBase Data Object that represents an Organization
We can take a look at the /fct variant of the primaryTopic object page by clicking the Facets link from the footer section "Alternative Linked Data Views":
Click "Next" to view the rest of the Attributes and their Values:
ODE Explorer views of CrunchBase Data Objects
We can also look for a specific company organization data at the initial company page from above, with Right-Click (or Ctrl-Click on Mac) then click on "View Data Sources". The OpenLink Data Explorer loads in a new tab and we see the data that has been made available. This can now be browsed through:
ODE Explorer offers a rich collection of different types of Views depending on a given criteria: What; Where; Who; etc.
Click for example the "Navigator" View link
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Further you can click on a Data Entity to explore its Linked Data Web:
