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

No, that is left for future work (as said in the paper).

Cheers,
denny


On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:41, Dan Brickley wrote:

> But I love it :) Do the numbers include dates?
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at> wrote:
>> Hi Denny,
>> 
>> I am sorry, but I have to voice some criticism of this project. Over the
>> past two years, I have become increasingly wary of the excitement over large
>> numbers of triples in the LOD community. Large numbers of triples don't mean
>> don't necessarily mean that a dataset enables us to do anything novel or
>> significantly useful. I think there should be a shift from focusing on
>> quantity to focusing on quality and usefulness.
>> 
>> Now the project you describe seems to be well-made, but it also exemplifies
>> this problem to a degree that I have not seen before. You basically
>> published a huge dataset of numbers, for the sake of producing a large
>> number of triples. Your announcement mainly emphasis on how huge the dataset
>> is, and the corresponding paper does the same. The paper gives a few
>> application scenarios, I quote
>> 
>> "The added value of the paradigm shift initiated by our work cannot be
>> underestimated.
>> By endowing numbers with an own identity, the linked open data cloud
>> will become treasure trove for a variety of disciplines. By using elaborate
>> data
>> mining techniques, groundbreaking insights about deep mathematical
>> correspondences
>> can be obtained. As an example, using our sample dataset, we were able
>> to discover that there are signi cantly more odd primes than even ones, and
>> even more excitingly a number contains 2 as a prime factor exactly if its
>> successor does not."
>> 
>> I am sorry, but this  sounds a bit overenthusiastic. I see no paradigm
>> shift, and I also don't see why your findings about prime numbers required
>> you to publish the dataset as linked data. I also have troubles seeing the
>> practical value of looking at the resource pages for each number with a
>> linked data browser, but I am also not a mathematician.
>> 
>> I am sorry for being a bit antagonistic, but we as a community should really
>> try not to be seduced too easily by publishing ever-larger numbers of
>> triples.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Matthias Samwald
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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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