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

Hi all,

we would like to thank you for putting so much effort in curating the 
CKAN packages for Linked Data sets since our last call.

We have compiled statistics for the 256 data sets[1] on CKAN that will 
be included in the next LOD Cloud: http://lod-cloud.net/state

Altogether 446 data sets are currently tagged on CKAN as LOD [2]. But 
the description of many of these data sets is still incomplete so that 
we can not find out whether they fulfil the minimal requirements for 
being included into the LOD cloud diagram (dereferencable URIs and RDF 
links to or from other data sources).

A list of data sets that could not include yet and an explanation of 
what is missing can be found here: 
http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/ckan/validator/

Starting next week we will generate the next LOD cloud diagram [3].

Therefore we would like to invite those of you who publish data sets 
that we could not include yet to please review and update your entries. 
Please finalize your dataset descriptions until August 15th to ensure 
that your data set will be part of the LOD Cloud.

In order to aid you in this quest, we have provided a validation page 
for your CKAN entry with step-by-step guidance for the information needed:
http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/ckan/validator/

You can use the CKAN entry for DBpedia as an example:
http://ckan.net/package/dbpedia

Thank you for helping!

Cheers,
Anja, Chris and Richard

[1] 
http://ckan.net/package/search?q=groups:lodcloud+AND+-tags:lodcloud.unconnected+AND+-tags:lodcloud.needsfixing
[2] http://ckan.net/tag/lod
[3] http://lod-cloud.net/

Received on Wednesday, 10 August 2011 14:30:15 UTC