- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 03:07:14 +0100
- To: "public-socialweb@w3.org" <public-socialweb@w3.org>, Social Interest Group <public-social-interest@w3.org>
Received on Wednesday, 6 January 2016 02:07:46 UTC
I came across some statistics on linked data adoption some of which may be interesting to this group. This is from the perspective of schama.org which is a linked data format compatible with JSON LD. https://www.similartech.com/categories/schema 14 million websites using the Blog type 9 million websites using the Person type While im unsure this constitutes ubiquitous or even "widespread adoption" it seems like a pretty good start for a relatively new technology and seems to be used in about 5% of the websites measured. This just constitutes the schema.org linked data, there's also facebook open graph which I believe has in excess of a billion profiles now, even serving the WebID standard. I would be interested if there were any other usage stats for technologies being looked at by this group. There's a lot of interesting ideas, but it's less clear how that translates into adoption. Sometimes there's an interested technology, but when examined accounts for one user on one site, which while technically compelling may be less persuasive in terms of usage. That said, usage is only one part of a bigger picture, but I do think an overview helps to create that bigger picture. I know at one time a lot of big firms were interested in adopting things like FOAF or activity streams or other techs. It would be great if we had data points or estimates on where some of these efforts stand in terms of usage.
Received on Wednesday, 6 January 2016 02:07:46 UTC