Good news for the Linked Open Data community: Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced today at the International Semantic Web Conference in Washington their new service http://data.nytimes.com. Through that service, the NY Times is publishing their large annotation vocabulary which is used to tag all their articles as Linked Data, and those tags link to DBpedia and Freebase. So it will be possible in the future to combine news articles about a subject with structured data from the Linked Data cloud.
The real beauty will come in when other large publishers such as the BBC follow, enabling developers to gather news stories about a topic across news sites. And I’m sure this will happen very soon…
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