[Developers] Results from the reconciliation service?

[Colin Evans]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:

> I've experimented with that service in the past and ,like you, I  
> found it lacking in several ways. Luckily, there's a new and much  
> improved reconciliation service in early development right now. It  
> lets you add a lot more constraints which gives much better results  
> than the old one.
>
> For example, entering the following query into the new service  
> should give you what you're looking for:
>
> {
>   "/type/object/name":"GM",
>   "/type/object/type":"/business/company"
> }

Yes!  As Shawn mentioned, we've got a new service in early development  
now.  There is a first cut at a javascript UI for reconciling  
spreadsheets that Peter Burns is developing here:

http://mqlx.com/reconciliation/recon.html

The ui code is open-sourced here - feel free to post patches and  
improvements:

http://github.com/metaweb/reconciliation_ui/tree/master

The service will give back a JSON list of suggested reconciliation  
results in order of likelihood, and if there were enough matches in  
your query, it may decide that the first record is definitely a good  
match.  It uses string distance matches, and you can put in the names  
of adjacent topics as well.

Here's the query that we often test with that reconciles to the  
correct release of the film "Ocean's Eleven".  Notice the flattened  
CVT property pointing to the name of the actor through the performance  
CVT:

{"/type/object/name":"Oceans Eleven", "/type/object/type":"/film/ 
film","/film/film/starring/actor":"George Clooney"}

The service is still under development, but please try it out and feel  
free to ask questions.

Thanks!
Colin








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