Is there an uptake in public datasets for the Semantic Web? Are there major data published for the Semantic Web already?
Major datasets (or access to existing datasets) are created quite often these days. Just some examples: • The DBpedia community effort to query Wikipedia like a database (see also a more detailed blog entry on this project). • IngentaConnect bibliographic metadata (around 200 million triples) • RDF/OWL representation of Wordnet • eBusiness ontology for products and services: eClassOwl • the Gene Ontology, to describe gene and gene products attributes in any organisms • protein sequence and annotation data: UniProt • Geonames Ontology and associated RDF data: geographical features (e.g., information on the city of Berlin) encoded in RDF Note also that one of the “Community Projects” sponsored by the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group, namely the “Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web” project, aims at making various open data sources available on the Web as RDF and to set RDF links between data items from different data sources. Collectively, the datasets consist of
Major datasets (or access to existing datasets) are created quite often these days. Just some examples: • The DBpedia community effort to query Wikipedia like a database (see also a more detailed blog entry on this project). • IngentaConnect bibliographic metadata (around 200 million triples) • RDF/OWL representation of Wordnet • eBusiness ontology for products and services: eClassOwl • the Gene Ontology, to describe gene and gene products attributes in any organisms • protein sequence and annotation data: UniProt • Geonames Ontology and associated RDF data: geographical features (e.g., information on the city of Berlin) encoded in RDF Whereas these are randomly chosen and individual examples, the “Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web” community project aims not only at making various open data sources available on the Web as RDF, but also to create links among the various data sets, thereby creating a nucleus for a Web of Data. All data sets bound together by this projects include bi
