Semantic CrunchBase is an RDF/SPARQL interface to CrunchBase, the free directory of technology companies, people, and investors.
This site provides:
- a Linked Data version of CrunchBase entries: TechCrunch, Facebook, The Founders Fund, ...
- a SPARQL endpoint
- Pimp My CrunchBase API: Define your own (parameterized) API methods (e.g. "All round-X investments in the last Y months", "Early-stage competitors of X with less than Y employees", "Startups by former employees of X", Your Idea Here)
- a Faceted Browser
- a Twitter Bot that replies to "Pimp My API" commands via twitter
- a Ubiquity Script for CrunchBase lookups from anywhere
Related Links, Posts, & Feedback
- Wallen’s CrunchBase
- Writing inference rules with SPARQLScript / LOD Linker
- Où s'amuser avec Sparql
- Ubiquity et le Web Sémantique
- SPARQL over CrunchBase, iPhone app in the works
- Interviewed by the CrunchBase team
- How to use CBbot
- cbbot gets a mention on TechCrunch
- CrunchBase Twitter Bot cbbot
- (French) screencast by Nicolas Cynober
- Pimp My (CrunchBase) API
- Crunchbase meets the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web by Example: Semantic CrunchBase
- Great Apps Using The CrunchBase API
- Semantic Web & CrunchBase
- CB API announcement at TC, API documentation
Stats
- Resources: 180585
- Graphs: 33534
- Triples: 957134
- (Explicit) types : 9
News & Progress
- Dec 09: Zemanta's new Semantic API provides disambiguation entities from Semantic CB
- Nov 13: The Schema contains mappings to popular RDF vocabs now (Thanks to Andreas Harth!).
- Sep 12: Official Announcement
- Sep 11: LOD Inferencer
- Sep 03: Ubiquity Script
- Aug 20: Twitter Bot activated
- Aug 11: Faceted Browser activated
- Jul 29: Announcement and 1st version of "Pimp My API"
- Jul 25: Improved Data Viewer (HTTP content negotiation, layout, graph list with refresh option)
- Jul 22: Basic Linked Data viewer is online
- Jul 22: Import finished: 27K graphs, 530K triples
- Jul 21: SPARQL Endpoint is online
- Jul 21: Importers are running (about 60% done)
- Jul 20: Site is online
