Hi Jim, honestly, a count job we launched some time ago gave us a something less than a billion on Sindice actually (But we currently dont index uniprot which is a big one). We'll be publishng live stats soon. But what about wrappers (e.g. flickr wrappers of keyword searches), that's a virtually unlimited source of triples.
Reminder: anyone who has a LOD dataset and would like it to be indexed/counted can simply submit a semantic sitemap here: http://sindice.com/main/submit (see the sitemap box) Processing is pretty quick usually (can be a day or 2, you get an email back) Giovanni On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Jim Hendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I've been to a number of talks lately where the size of the current (Sept > 08 diagram) Linked Open Data cloud, in triples, has been stated - with > numbers that vary quite widely. The esw wiki says 2B triples as of 2007, > which isn't very useful given the growth we've seen in the past year -- I've > also seen the various blog posts and mail threads saying why we shouldn't > cit meaningless numbers and such - but frankly, I've recently been on a > bunch of panels with DB guys, and I'd love to have a reasonable number to > quote -- anyone have a good estimate of the size of the danged thing (number > of triples in the whole as an RDF graph would be nice) -- would also be nice > for general audiences where big numbers tend to impress and for research > purposes (for example, we know how far we can compress the triples for an in > memory approach we are playing with, but we want to figure out how much > memory we need for the whole cloud - we want to know if we need to shell out > for the 16G iphone) > anyway, if anyone has a decent estimate, or even a smart educated guess, > I'd love to hear it > JH > > > > "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?." > - Albert Einstein > > Prof James Hendler > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler > Tetherless World Constellation Chair > Computer Science Dept > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180 > > > >
