Re: Data "on" the Web vs Data "in" the Web

Leigh,

The RDF "market" is the amount of money organizations are spending on RDF 
technologies.  This includes the companies Phil mentioned, which btw are 
not using RDF databases exclusively.  The same organization are also using 
traditional databases and unstructured repositories too, and probably 
their RDF use amounts to less than 5% of their total overall data storage.

I am not disputing that there is RDF adoption.  Nor am I disputing that 
RDF is a great solution for some data needs.  I am simply providing 
evidence that RDF is so far a very minor database technology and when we 
base our Best Practices recommendations ONLY on RDF we are creating 
standards with very minor impact.

This may not be what people want or like to hear.  But it is what the 
market is so far telling us and I think it behooves us to listen.

Best Regards,

Steve

Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again"



From:
Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
To:
Steven Adler/Somers/IBM@IBMUS
Cc:
Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>, public-dwbp-wg <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Date:
03/25/2014 11:27 AM
Subject:
Re: Data "on" the Web vs Data "in" the Web



Hi,

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Steven Adler <adler1@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I understand your point of view and you've written a passionate defense 
of
> RDF and Linked Data. Its not my intent to challenge your beliefs, but I
> would like to point out some facts and my interpretation.
> 1. According to IDC the RDF market was $10M in 2012 and is estimated to 
grow
> to $170M in 2017. That might sound like a lot but in comparison to the
> overall database market of about $30B its peanuts.

What is "the RDF market"?

>
> 2.  There might be government implementations of RDF but there are no 
Open
> Data implementations.

I'm having trouble understanding that statement when Phil has pointed
you at a lot of examples of government and non-government deployments
of RDF that are Open Data.

Are you talking about RDF triple stores rather than people using RDF?

L.

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