- From: Peter Mika <pmika@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:06:34 +0200
- To: "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Hi All, 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 http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-paper-1.pdf Please compare this carefully with the results of Bizer et al.: http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-paper-2.pdf 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
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