- From: Giovanni Tummarello <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:26:15 +0000
- To: "Sören Auer" <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Cc: "Matthias Samwald" <samwald@gmx.at>, "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>, public-lod@w3.org
Hi > when people liked to draw maps of the WWW, and these really quickly > disappeared when it got big. I hope that happens to the Data Web, too. > Hopefully soon. But my current estimate is that the Data Web is probably This has happened already, for the Data Web as in Microformat world and likely embedded RDFa. each day there are i'd say at least 200-300k to a million pages with microformats embedded on them (just think upcoming.org, last.fm , eventful.com (great microformats for each new even, several tens of thousands new events per day) + hundreds / thousands of new sites (e.g. installation of wordpress plugins) which support some degree of web of data. I mean just check the diversity.. http://sindice.com/search?q=format%3AMICROFORMAT&qt=term (and we have so little microformats admittedly becouse we have so far just crawler "width first") As you say, people used to publish these sites on the microformat.org website but they dont bother anymore. There are reasons to publish this data (several useful plugins, search monkey eyc) , publishing this data is infinitely easier than messing with 303s and such.. and the use cases for search engine optimization (E.g. for finding events "tomorrow in dublin" see our silly demo http://sindice.com:8080/microformat-search/ try searching for "miami" to see multiple sources e.g. yahoo and lastfm merged togher on the map) are clear. Giovanni
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