Usually I don’t publicly point my finger at the work of others that I think is wrong. Still, I believe it’s time for an analysis of the stuff that’s going on in the Linked Data world, and that will include pointing out what I believe is wrong with some of the work that’s been invested [...]
The Linked Data Web is about reusing and linking URIs. With DBpedia, we provide URIs for a broad range of topics: People, organizations, countries, cities, rivers, mountains, music albums, films, books, buildings, etc. 2.6 million URIs overall.
But it didn’t used to be easy enough to find a DBpedia URI for a given keyword. DBpedia Lookup [...]
A week ago, Freebase announced that its rich dataset is now available as Linked Data. Congratulations, Metaweb! So it is finally the time to welcome Freebase to the Linked Data Cloud.
But wait, isn’t Linked Data about… linking data? Unfortunately, while Freebase now does export RDF, its concepts aren’t linked to other datasets in “the cloud“. [...]