The concept of Linked Data has been embraced by a particular set of the Semantic Web’s enthusiasts and by a growing cohort of potential beneficiaries, predominantly those active in research, media or government. From modest beginnings, Richard Cyganiak’s Linking Open Data Cloud diagram[1] now represents over 13 billion[2] RDF statements from across a growing network of participating sites. This diagram only scratches the surface, in all likelihood missing a number of poorly publicised resources as well as the related work being done behind the firewalls of organisations such as pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson. The 3,000 datasets currently catalogued on the UK Government’s data.gov.uk site are also amongst those not yet represented, having been published since the diagram was last updated.
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[1] http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
[2] http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics
There is not much if any data on data.gov.uk that is in linked data format yet (Feb 2010)
There’s quite a bit… but certainly not anything like all of the ’3,000 datasets’ I mention as being in the catalogue there. See, for example, http://data.gov.uk/blog/using-sparql-our-education-datasets
The diagram is dated July 2009, and this is Feb 2010. Isn’t there a more recent version?
Nope. It’s still the current one… I’ll drop Richard an email and see if an update is planned…
*squish*