The Map of Data: Over 10 Billion Pieces of Reusable Information
Published 1 year ago by James Simmons
I just stumbled upon a useful resource from Sindice (the Semantic Web search engine) called the Map of Data. The Map of Data lists sites that export their information via Microformats and embedded RDF (as well which format(s) the sites are using). Each site has been categorized and conveniently placed into lists. The categories include books, people, places, products and listings, social news, events, politics, and more. According to Sindice over 10 billion pieces of reusable information can already be found across 100 million pages.
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It's my goal to help bring about the Semantic Web. I also like to explore related topics like natural language processing, information retrieval, and web evolution. I'm the primary author of Semantic Focus and I'm currently working on several Semantic Web projects.
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Posted by Giovanni Tummarello on November 19, 2008 at 7:29pm
Hi,
unfortunately that map of data is more a concept that a life, useful feature.
By analyzing the sindice dataset we plan to produce a live lod cloud and possibly something that really helps in formulating queries on the linked open data cloud, but that is not what that page offers as for now :-)
Interested readers might want to subscribe to the project blog for announcements in this sense.
Extremely interested readers might want to write to us as positions to work on Sindice are available.
Posted by James Simmons on December 10, 2008 at 2:22pm
I dig the cloud idea, it would certainly make visualizing the amount of data easier. I like the page right now because it's a good list of sources for anyone that wants to crawl for metadata.
Posted by Adrin on December 19, 2008 at 1:33am
yes you are right