Using DMOZ's RDF

How can I use this?

[Condor12]

Hi,

I've seen a few scripts that allow me to use the rdf dump to add a DMOZ like directory to my own websites. (All with the developers banners)

Can anyone point me to somewhere I can learn to use the rdf file myself?

Thanks.

[RFranzen]

This may be more theory than you want, but it's always nice to start at the beginning:

* [w3.org...]
* [rdf.dmoz.org...]

-- Rich

[Condor12]

Cheers RFranzen,

Looks like I've got a lot of reading ahead of me :)

Thanks

Condor12

[OntheEdge]

Those little banners aren't looking so bad after all, eh? ;)

[jimbo_mac]

Condor 12,

you could put a small snippet of javascript code
http*://digitalwindmill.com/

[choster]

ODP has a category for upload tools [dmoz.org] for either parsing the RDF or scraping the static directory pages. You might want to check there for the specific capabilities and licensing you're looking for.

[Psycho1]

Anyone here know of a free tool that will parse an RDF dump into a mySQL database and help me create HTML pages from it? I know someone above posted a link to an ODP section on RDF upload tools, but most of them are not free. I'm a noobie at this stuff, so I'm hoping to find one that's easy to use. I've done a lot of searching and found several websites and forum threads where they discuss this, but I can never find a clear cut answer. I'll only be using a small portion of the RDF dump. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Fischerlaender]

I've got an old Perl script which does just this. It takes the dump file and saves two CSV files which contain the categories and the sites. These CSV files can easily be imported into MySQL with LOAD DATA.

You'll find this script on my company's homepage. (Link at the bottom of the website in my profile.)

1. The script has english comments.
2. The last time I used it was in August 2002.
3. It doesn't process the RDF in an elegant way; it's just a brutal attack of Regular Expressions.