My 2c in order to capture this for others as well:
http://community.linkeddata.org/MediaWiki/index.php?HowBigIsTheDangedThing
Cheers,
Michael
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Dr. Michael Hausenblas
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Lower Dangan,
Galway, Ireland
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Jim Hendler 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
