Re: What is the correct approximate number of LOD datasets?

Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to come up with a meaningful single figure on the number of available LOD datasets.  It depends on how you define a dataset and it depends on your approach to collecting information on what is available.

Best regards

Bill Roberts




On 9 Oct 2013, at 19:32, Kalpa Gunaratna <kalpagunaratna@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>    I want to know for documentation purposes, what is the correct approximate number of LOD datasets available. As I can see, I can get statistics from 2 sources.
> 
> (1) CKAN (DataHub) lod cloud group, which is used to draw the LOD cloud diagram has now 340 datasets listed. http://datahub.io/group/lodcloud
> 
> (2) LODStats web site mentions there are 2289 datasets but only 870 datasets have no problems. http://stats.lod2.eu/
> 
> 
> It would be nice if somebody knows what statistics are better to use and correct in terms on Linked Open Data cloud of datasets. 
> 
> 
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> Kalpa Gunaratna
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