Hi All, I was looking at the number of foaf files on the web over a year ago now, output looks like so :
http://mmt.me.uk/slides/lod24022010/#(16) Mischa On 13 Apr 2011, at 12:11, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > On 13 April 2011 10:54, Michael Brunnbauer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> re >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:15:46AM +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote: >>> Just trying to figure what is the size of personal information available as >>> LOD vs billions of person profiles stored by Google, Amazon, Facebook, >>> LinkedIn, unameit ... in proprietary formats. >> >> At www.foaf-search.net, we have ca. 3.5 mio instances of foaf:Person. >> >> The biggest chunk out there is probably livejournal.com with more than 25mio >> users which we cannot index all right now (we have 221090 of them). >> >> Another big one is hi5.com but the FOAF is quite broken so we don't crawl it. > > gmail at one point were publishing foaf profiles ... so that's quite a few > more > > facebook graph is not quite foaf but certainly machine readable JSON, > and could easily be transformed to FOAF, so that's another chunk > > there's a few bridges too such as ones last.fm, flikr and semantic tweet > > So including bridge I'd guess 250 million, 99% should be alive today, > but that number will fall over time (obviously) > >> >> See also: >> >> http://www.w3.org/wiki/FoafSites >> http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DataSources >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael Brunnbauer >> >> -- >> ++ Michael Brunnbauer >> ++ netEstate GmbH >> ++ Geisenhausener Straße 11a >> ++ 81379 München >> ++ Tel +49 89 32 19 77 80 >> ++ Fax +49 89 32 19 77 89 >> ++ E-Mail [email protected] >> ++ http://www.netestate.de/ >> ++ >> ++ Sitz: München, HRB Nr.142452 (Handelsregister B München) >> ++ USt-IdNr. DE221033342 >> ++ Geschäftsführer: Michael Brunnbauer, Franz Brunnbauer >> ++ Prokurist: Dipl. Kfm. (Univ.) Markus Hendel >> >> >
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