Linked Data Comes of Age

Mike Bergman has written a niece piece on the success story of LOD (incl. upcoming stuff), mentioning the LDOW08 and the LinkedData Planet conference (with TimBL as the key speaker, wow!). I guess 2008 will become a good year for LOD …

riese launched

On 2008-01-31, riese (the RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort) has  been launched: the first XHTML+RDFa deployed LOD dataset (currently some 5MTriple are available, the goal is to serve 3GTriple). riese offers  a new interlinking method, the so called User Contributed Interlinking (UCI). Fo a gentle introduction to riese see the following slides: