Hi Ted, > But please ... this time, will there be any effort to make visible > the clustering within the LOD Cloud? This seems to me one of the > best ways to encourage data set publishers to link out -- and that > *is* important to grow the utility of the *overall* data set. > > To date, the only graphic I've seen which shows just how little > overall interconnectedness there is (was) in the LOD Cloud is my > own ... which someone has long since removed from display on the > EWC wiki page with the Cloud-like graphic, and which is certainly > well outdated, but which is still found here -- > > http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/images/dbpedia-lod-cloud.html > As for the clustering, you can also have a look at the picture we plotted with a network analysis tool: http://blog.larkc.eu/?p=1941 Our network file that we created out of the data on the ESW wiki will also be outdated as soon as the new picture is completed. I'll make a new version of it with the data on: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/ With such a file, everyone will be able to plot its own cloud picture and highlight the different structures he wants to see in it. Christophe -- Dr. Christophe Guéret (cgueret@few.vu.nl) http://cgueret.net Postdoc working on SOKS (http://www.few.vu.nl/soks) Knowledge Representation& Reasoning Group Computational Intelligence Group Department of Computer Science, AI VU University Amsterdam
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