Re: Metadata statistics from Yahoo! Search

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

> On 4/17/12 11:06 AM, Peter Mika wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> To add one more data point to the previous discussion about
>> webdatacommons.org, we have recently presented a short position paper at
>> the LDOW 2012 workshop at WWW 2012. Online at
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>> http://events.linkeddata.org/**ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-**paper-1.pdf<http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-paper-1.pdf>
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>> Please compare this carefully with the results of Bizer et al.:
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>> http://events.linkeddata.org/**ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-**paper-2.pdf<http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-paper-2.pdf>
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>> As it always the case with statistics, it matters what you count on and
>> how you count ;) For example, Chris and his co-authors did not consider
>> most of OGP data on the Web, which results in large discrepancies in the
>> counts for RDFa, as well as overall counts.
>>
>> Nevertheless, both studies confirm that the Semantic Web, and in
>> particular metadata in HTML, is taking on in major ways thanks to the
>> efforts of Facebook, the sponsors of schema.org and many other
>> individuals and organizations. Comparing to our previous numbers, for
>> example we see a five-fold increase in RDFa usage with 25% of webpages
>> containing RDFa data (including OGP), and over 7% of web pages containing
>> microdata. These are incredibly impressive numbers, which illustrate that
>> this part of the Semantic Web has gone mainstream.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>  +10000 ... re. maintstream. It's done!


http://semanticweb.com/the-semantic-web-has-gone-mainstream-wanna-bet_b27329

:)


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