On 4/17/12 11:06 AM, Peter Mika wrote: > Hi All, > > To add one more data point to the previous discussion about > webdatacommons.org, we have recently presented a short position paper > at the LDOW 2012 workshop at WWW 2012. Online at > > http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-paper-1.pdf > > Please compare this carefully with the results of Bizer et al.: > > http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-paper-2.pdf > > As it always the case with statistics, it matters what you count on > and how you count ;) For example, Chris and his co-authors did not > consider most of OGP data on the Web, which results in large > discrepancies in the counts for RDFa, as well as overall counts. > > Nevertheless, both studies confirm that the Semantic Web, and in > particular metadata in HTML, is taking on in major ways thanks to the > efforts of Facebook, the sponsors of schema.org and many other > individuals and organizations. Comparing to our previous numbers, for > example we see a five-fold increase in RDFa usage with 25% of webpages > containing RDFa data (including OGP), and over 7% of web pages > containing microdata. These are incredibly impressive numbers, which > illustrate that this part of the Semantic Web has gone mainstream. > > Cheers, > Peter > > +10000 ... re. maintstream. It's done! -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder& CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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