Re: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud

By the way, happy April 1 :)

 - Matthias

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From: "Denny Vrandecic" <denny.vrandecic@kit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:01 PM
To: <public-lod@w3.org>
Subject: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud

> 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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