Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

Hi all,

we are in the process of drawing the next version of the LOD cloud 
diagram. This time it is likely to contain around 180 datasets 
altogether having a size of around 20 billion RDF triples.

For drawing the next version of the LOD cloud, we have started to 
collect meta-information about the datasets to be included on CKAN, a 
registry of open data and content packages provided by the Open 
Knowledge Foundation.

The list of datasets about which we have already collected information 
is be found here:

http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/

In addition to basic meta-information about a dataset such as its size 
and the number of links pointing at other datasets, we also collect 
additional meta-information about the license of the dataset, 
alternative access options like SPARQL endpoints or dataset dumps, and 
whether there exist a voiD description of the dataset or a Semantic Web 
Sitemap.

So if your dataset is not listed yet and you want to have it included 
into the next version of the LOD cloud, please add it to CKAN until next 
Wednesday (September 8th, 2010).

Also, if we have collected wrong information about your dataset or if 
your dataset is only partially described up till now, it would be great 
if you could add the missing information.

Guidelines about how to add datasets to CKAN as well as about the tags 
that we are using to annotate the datasets are found here:
http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/CKANmetainformation

We thank all contributors in advance for their input and help, which 
hopefully will allow us to draw the next version of the LOD cloud as 
accurate as possible.

Cheers,

Anja Jentzsch, Richard Cyganiak, Chris Bizer

Received on Thursday, 2 September 2010 18:11:28 UTC