Re: KIT releases monumental dataset of more than 15 *trillion* triples

Thank you. We were considering using the blockchain for sustainability, as
it would then be a distributed app, but I was told "that's not how it
works, Denny!"



On Sun, Apr 1, 2018, 13:12 Axel Polleres <axel@polleres.net> wrote:

> Dear Denny,
>
> given the size of the dataset and it's potential impact in terms of
> resource needs when the full dataset is being processed,
> I'd strongly suggest to switch to CO2-license (see also my blogpost no
> Sustainable Computing)!
>
> just my two cents, HTH, and congratulations for this huge advancement of
> LON!
>
> Axel
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Polleres
> url: http://www.polleres.net/  twitter: @AxelPolleres
>
> On 01.04.2018, at 10:31, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> KIT is proud today to release an extension to an existing dataset, which
> will increase the size of the dataset by a factor of more than 1000
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n1000>. The widely cited Linked
> Open Numbers <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/> dataset (more
> than 30 <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n30> citations) has
> been updated. Every single triple was regenerated, and even though the size
> has been dramatically expanded, we remain confident in the quality of every
> single triple.
>
> http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/
>
> It has been - on the data today - eight
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n8> years since the original
> publication of the Linked Open Numbers dataset. Today, we are proud to
> announce to increase the size and thus utility of the dataset by three
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n3> orders of magnitude.
>
> The page has received a thorough remake, not only refreshing it optically
> and updating it to display better on mobile devices, but also introducing a
> number of new features:
>
> * the previous limit to the first billion
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n1000000000> natural numbers
> has been lifted, since the page has in the meantime moved to a 64
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n64> bit architecture. We
> expanded the supported numbers to the first trillion natural numbers,
> therefore creating 999 billion
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n999000000000> new entities.
>
> * all links to Wikipedia and DBpedia have been refreshed. In the eight
> years since the original release, Wikipedia and DBpedia have in an effort
> to catch up with Linked Open Numbers created new entities for numerous
> numbers. We have updated the links to all of those.
>
> * also links to Wikidata entities representing these numbers have been
> created and added, extending the linkage between Linked Open Numbers and
> the LOD cloud by thousands and thousand of new entities.
>
> * the whole dataset is now published under the terms of the CC-0 license,
> countering long years of discussion that resulted in fear, uncertainty, and
> doubt. Now the Linked Open Numbers dataset is standing on a solid
> grounding, joining other major datasets in choosing the perfect license for
> data.
>
> * we expanded the ontology and the dataset to also provide the digit sum
> of the numbers, allowing new applications on top of that.
>
> * we refreshed the links to Linked Data browsers. The original six
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n6> browsers are all not
> available anymore to allow to browse over the Linked Open Numbers dataset.
> Therefore these links were all removed, and replaced with two
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n2> current browsers.
>
> * we also support the URI4
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n4>URI project and providing
> data about the Linked Open Numbers URIs in the URI4URI
> <http://uri4uri.net/> scheme.
>
> * the page has been updated to support Unicode's UTF8
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n8>, thus showing the number
> names in their new full glory.
>
> Eight <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n8> years - 2922
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n2922> days - after the
> original publication Linked Open Numbers still gets tens of thousand
> <http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/web/n40000> hits per month. We
> are happy to have updated the resource and expanded its lifetime
> considerably.
>
> The community is invited and challenged to provide a SPARQL endpoint to
> the dataset. We think that the size of the dataset would provide for an
> interesting challenge.
>
> An open source release of the code base is being planned.
>
> The update was created in collaboration by Denny Vrandecic, Steffen Thoma,
> Andreas Thalhammer, Andreas Harth, and York Sure-Vetter.
>
>
>