[topicmaps-comment] RDF Usage Survey

[Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@emory.edu>]

Greetings,

Andreas Eberhart posted the following message to the www-rdf-interest
@w3c.org mailing list. Thought it might be of interest to the TM crowd.

>Dear Interest Group,
>
>we conducted a search for RDF data on the web. The results are summarized in
>a technical report. The paper and the java/jdbc-based software that was used
>is also available for download at:
>
>http://www.i-u.de/schools/eberhart/rdf/
>
>Abstract
>
>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) allows describing metadata in an
>interoperable way. It is the basis for promising work in the area of the
>Semantic Web. This paper assesses how much and what kind of RDF data was
>found on the web today. Four search strategies, crawling, scanning URLs
>obtained from an Internet Directory, a targeted search, and a search at URLs
>appearing in previously collected facts are described and compared. Results
>show that RDF is currently hard to find unless a considerable effort and
>resources are put into the search process.
>
>Looking forward to hearing your comments, suggestions, or criticism.
>
Lack of usage indicates RDF is not a foregone conclusion for the "semantic web" and the probable source of errors may have lessons for deployment of topic maps.

Well done and worth reading.

Patrick        

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu