On May 16, 2012, at 20:04 - 16/05/12, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 5/16/12 6:55 PM, Bernard Vatant wrote: >> >> Adrian >> >> Don't dream of accessing the Google Knowledge Graph and query it through a >> SPARQL endpoint as you do for DBpedia. As every Google critical >> technological infrastructure, I'm afraid it will be well hidden under the >> hood, and accessible only through the search interface. If they ever expose >> the Graph objects through an API as they do for Gmaps, now THAT would be >> really great news. >> >> Kingsley says they have Freebase, yes but Freebase stores only 22 million >> entities according to their own stats, which makes less than 5% of the >> overall figure, since Google claims 500 million nodes in the Knowledge >> Graph, and growing. So I guess they have also DBpedia and VIAF and Geonames >> and you name it ... whatever open and structured they can put their hands >> on. Linked data stuff whatever the format. >> >> Bernard > > And it will be query accessible, this is something that's inevitable and > unavoidable. This is the Web. Well, that's what I've been trying to find out... Some of the questions: will they provide an API to access/query it? How really OPEN will it be? Will it then become the de-facto "DBPedia" in the linked space, ie, a central hub that almost everybody (also) links to? Cheers D
