- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:11:23 +0200
- To: Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@netestate.de>
- Cc: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
On 13 April 2011 10:54, Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@netestate.de> wrote: > > re > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:15:46AM +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote: >> Just trying to figure what is the size of personal information available as >> LOD vs billions of person profiles stored by Google, Amazon, Facebook, >> LinkedIn, unameit ... in proprietary formats. > > At www.foaf-search.net, we have ca. 3.5 mio instances of foaf:Person. > > The biggest chunk out there is probably livejournal.com with more than 25mio > users which we cannot index all right now (we have 221090 of them). > > Another big one is hi5.com but the FOAF is quite broken so we don't crawl it. gmail at one point were publishing foaf profiles ... so that's quite a few more facebook graph is not quite foaf but certainly machine readable JSON, and could easily be transformed to FOAF, so that's another chunk there's a few bridges too such as ones last.fm, flikr and semantic tweet So including bridge I'd guess 250 million, 99% should be alive today, but that number will fall over time (obviously) > > See also: > > http://www.w3.org/wiki/FoafSites > http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DataSources > > Regards, > > Michael Brunnbauer > > -- > ++ Michael Brunnbauer > ++ netEstate GmbH > ++ Geisenhausener Straße 11a > ++ 81379 München > ++ Tel +49 89 32 19 77 80 > ++ Fax +49 89 32 19 77 89 > ++ E-Mail brunni@netestate.de > ++ http://www.netestate.de/ > ++ > ++ Sitz: München, HRB Nr.142452 (Handelsregister B München) > ++ USt-IdNr. DE221033342 > ++ Geschäftsführer: Michael Brunnbauer, Franz Brunnbauer > ++ Prokurist: Dipl. Kfm. (Univ.) Markus Hendel > >
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