Hi Denny:
Without spooling your All Fools' Day joke: I think it is a dangerous
one, because there is obviously a true core in the expected criticism.
I think that without any need, you give outsiders additional ammunition
to confirm other outsiders' prejudices against the value of linked data.
I bet you will find lots of triples in the current LOD cloud that have
information value close to the triples in your "experiment".
And many people communicating over the potential of the Web of Linked
Data, and maybe deciding about business investments, will not see the
joke in your page.
Best
Martin
PS: I miss a semantic sitemap ;-)
On 01.04.10 12:01, Denny Vrandecic wrote:
We are happy to announce that the Institute AIFB at the KIT is releasing the
biggest dataset until now to the Linked Open Data cloud. The Linked Open
Numbers project offers billions of facts about natural numbers, all readily
available as Linked Data.
Our accompanying peer-reviewed paper [1] gives further details on the
background and implementation. We have integrated with external data sources
(linking DBpedia to all their 335 number entities) and also directly link to
the best-known linked open data browsers from the page.
You can visit the Linked Open Numbers project at:
<http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/>
Or point your linked open data browser directly at:
<http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/n1>
We are happy to have increased the amount of triples on the Web by more than 14
billion triples, roughly 87.5% of the size of linked data web before this
release (see paper for details). We hope that the data set will find its
serendipitous use.
The data set and the publication mechanism was checked pedantically, and we
expect no errors in the triples. If you do find some, please let us know. We
intend to be compatible with all major linked open data publication standards.
About the AIFB
The Institute AIFB (Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods) at KIT
is one of the world-leading institutions in Semantic Web technology.
Approximately 20 researchers of the knowledge management research group are
establishing theoretical results and scalable implementations for the field,
closely collaborating with the sister institute KSRI (Karlsruhe Service
Research Institute), the start-up company ontoprise GmbH, and the Knowledge
Management group at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies.
Particular emphasis is given to areas such as logical foundations, Semantic Web
mining, ontology creation engineering and management, RDF data management,
semantic web search, and the implementation of interfaces and tools. The
institute is involved in many industry-university co-operations, both on a
European and a national level, including a number of intelligent Web systems
case studies.
Website:<http://www.aifb.kit.edu>
About KIT
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the merger of the former
Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and the former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. With
about 8000 employees and an annual budget of 700 million Euros, KIT is the
largest technical research institution within Germany. KIT is both, a state
university with research and teaching and, at the same time, a large-scale
research institution of the Helmholtz Association. KIT has a strong reputation
as one of Germany’s university of excellence, aiming to set the highest
standards for education, research and innovation.
Website:<http://www.kit.edu>
[1] Denny Vrandecic, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Uta Lösch: Leveraging
Non-Lexical Knowledge for the Linked Open Data Web, published in Rodolphe
Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Fifth RAFT'2010), the yearly
bilingual publication on nonchalant research, available at
<http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/linked_open_numbers.pdf>
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Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
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Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/
Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations
Webcasts:
Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
How-to - http://vimeo.com/7583816
Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey
Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287
Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html
Tutorial materials:
ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on
Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009
