<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">I've experimented with that service in the past and ,like you, I found it lacking in several ways. Luckily, there's <a href="http://mqlx.com/reconciliation/">a new and much improved reconciliation service</a> in early development right now. It lets you add a lot more constraints which gives much better results than the old one.<br> <br> For example, entering the following query into the new service should give you what you're looking for:<br> <tt><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">{<br> "/type/object/name":"GM", <br> "/type/object/type":"/business/company"<br> }</span></tt><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://mqlx.com/reconciliation/recon.html">http://mqlx.com/reconciliation/recon.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The ui code is open-sourced here - feel free to post patches and improvements:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://github.com/metaweb/reconciliation_ui/tree/master">http://github.com/metaweb/reconciliation_ui/tree/master</a></div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>{"/type/object/name":"Oceans Eleven", "/type/object/type":"/film/film","/film/film/starring/actor":"George Clooney"}</div><div><br></div><div>The service is still under development, but please try it out and feel free to ask questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Colin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>