SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/NewsArchive

This is the news archive for the Linking Open Data project. See the project page for the latest developments.

2009

• 2009-12-09: sameAs.org now has over 10M different URI bundles.
• 2009-11-19: The White House announced plans to publish structured data as RDFa on the Web.
• 2009-10-30: The New York Times has started to publish parts of its subject headings as Linked Data under a CC BY license. Please refer to data.nytimes.com for details.
• 2009-10-15: Data-gov Wiki publishes a Linked Data version of the eGovernment data made available by the Obama administration via data.gov. Altogether the datasets enlarge the Linked Data cloud by 5 billion triples. More details.
• 2009-09-10: The website LinkedGeoData has started to publish a Linked Data version of the OpenStreetMap dataset adding around 2 billion triples to the Web of Linked Data. More details.
• 2009-06-18: Tim Berners-Lee interviewed by the BBC about the US and UK government initiatives to add government data to the LOD cloud.
• 2009-06-17: CNET announced that they will publish parts of their product data as Linked Data on the Web and also partner with Open Calais on interlinking textual content and data in order to create 'topic pages' across CNET web properties.
• 2009-06-03: [1] launched: service to find co-referent URIs.
• 2009-06-02: A Linked Data application for end-users is deployed at ESWC 2009.
• 2009-04-30: Tim Berners-Lee suggests to utilise Linked Open Data in the National Dialogue
• 2009-04-20 to 2009-04-22: Meeting regarding a linked data research agenda as well as tools and application session during WWW09
• 2009-03-03: Silk - Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data released. The Silk framework is a tool for discovering relationships between data items within different Linked Data sources. Data publishers can use Silk to set RDF links from their data sources to other data sources on the Web.
• 2009-02-06: Tim Berners-Lee speaks at TED2009 about Linked Data using the LOD data cloud and the Linking Open Drug Data cloud as examples. See video of the talk and his slides. (March 2010 follow-up on the progress of RAW data now, also at TED)
• 2009-01-29: The release of voiD 1.0, the 'Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets' has been announced.
• 2009-01-28: Calais, the Thomson Reuters Web service that automatically generates semantic metadata for content, now supports Linked Data for all identified entities and joins the cloud by linking to DBpedia, Geonames, and other data assets. Example URI: IBM. Calais makes it easy for publishers to enhance the value of their content, improve the reader experience and connect to the emerging linked content economy.

2008

• 2008-12-15: Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2009) and IJSWIS Special Issue on Linked Data. We are happy to announce that after the successful LDOW2008 workshop at WWW2008 there will be again a Linked Data workshop at this year's WWW2009 conference in Madrid, Spain. A second CfP that might be interesting for Linked Data researchers is the IJSWIS Special Issue on Linked Data which aims at showcasing outstanding work in the area.
• 2008-12-09: Zemanta has announced the release of the Zemanta semantic API. Zemanta API is the first widely available service that takes plain text as input and disambiguates found entities and terms into Linking Open Data. It also returns categorization, auto-tagging, article and image suggestions as part of RDF/XML response. Usage is free up to 10.000 calls a day.
• 2008-12-01: OpenLink Software have announced the release of the Virtuoso Universal Server (Cloud Edition) AMI for Amazon EC2. Comprising a pre-configured Virtuoso installation in a Linux environment, and complemented by the simultaneous availability of DBpedia backup files in an Amazon S3 Bucket, this AMI enables users to very quickly have their own DBpedia in the Cloud. A raw beginner's instance can be fully up-and-running in 1.5 mostly unattended hours -- as opposed to the 16 active hours (not including download time, learning process, or errors along the way) required for a knowledgeable person with heavy-duty hardware to get a local DBpedia instance fully loaded and functional.
• 2008-10-29: Freebase, an open-license database for all things in the world, has released a Linked Data interface (See release note). This is a really valuable addition to the Web of Data as it opens up the way for fusing and integrating Freebase data with data from various data sets in the cloud. Example instances: Sean Young, Blade Runner.
• 2008-10-19: The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has released its new Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) specification for describing aggregations of Web resources By providing a way to describe such aggregations, the new OAI-ORE specifications aims at moving the library world closer to the Web and to enable Web clients, such as the crawlers of search engines like Google or Yahoo or generic Web data browsers like Tabulator or Marbles, to do smarter things with metadata about publications. See also OAI Press Release.
• 2008-10-01: The Bio2RDF project has published 27 biology-, gene- and medical-related data sets (altogether 2.3 billion RDF triples). The data sets are available as Linked Data and via SPARQL endpoints.Sparql Endpoint List. Example PubMed article and PubMed author viewed using the Marbles Linked Data browser. Falcons Search for KILLER CELL.
• 2008-09-25: Announcement of Open GUID, a project to establish a global identity for Linked Data.
• 2008-09-18: Joshua Tauberer presents a Linked Data rendition of US Securities and Exchange Commission Corporate Ownership data. A few notable URIs from this data set -- News Corp (owner of FOX and other media things),Rupert Murdoch (media mogul behind News Corp), Ford Motor Company, EBay.
• 2008-09-18: A dynamic Linked Data version of CrunchBase is made available by OpenLink Software through the Virtuoso Sponger. Example entries: Google, Microsoft.
• 2008-09-12: Announcement of Semantic CrunchBase, a Linked Data version of CrunchBase
• 2008-09-09: Creating, Deploying, and Exploiting Linked Data "remix" presentation, unofficially delivered at the Cambridge Semantic Web Gathering by Kingsley Idehen, serves a quadruple whammy -- being a use case for RDFa, BIBO (Bibliographic Ontology), and HTML Slidy, while also being a valuable presentation in its own right.
• 2008-08-06: BSBM With Triples and Mapped Relational Data in Virtuoso - Berlin SPARQL Benchmark is "a great way of showing that mapping can outperform even the best triple store," says Orri Erling
• 2008-07-29: How to Publish Linked Data on the Web - tutorial at ISWC2008
• 2008-07-17: Presentation to be given at SMB 2008, on Monday, July 21. Another Linked Data-in-action use case and case study.
• 2008-07-17: Vapour Linked Data Validator released. Diego Berrueta and Sergio Fernandez have released the Vapour validation service which allows you to check whether semantic web data is correctly published according to the current best practices. The LOD community effort highly recommends all Linked Data publishers to check their Semantic Web sites against this service.
• 2008-07-16: UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer), a 'subject concept' (or 'topic') reference structure for the Web, released publicly after 12 months of development effort, with 20,000 subject concepts and relationships distilled from OpenCyc, and a further 1.5 million named entities extracted from Wikipedia and mapped to the UMBEL reference structure with cross-links to YAGO and DBpedia.
• 2008-06-18: Tim Berners-Lee calls the Linking Open Data community effort "Most potentially world-changing" in his talk at Linked Data Planet. This is nice feedback.
• 2008-06-17: Kingsley Idehen's Linked Data Planet keynote - Creating, Deploying, and Exploiting Linked Data
• 2008-05-31: New Scientist article "Birth pangs for the Semantic Web" features the Linking Open Data effort (Full text via TMCnet).
• 2008-05-21: Article by Ed Summers about Linked Data ("Following Your Nose to the Web of Data", doi:10.3789/winter2008-summers, pre-print available here) published in Information Standards Quarterly, a publication of the National Information Standards Organization. The LOD cloud is used as the issues cover image.
• 2008-04-25: Linked Data: Principles and State of the Art talk at the W3C Track at WWW2008.
• 2008-03-24: Please contribute to the Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge at I-Semantics 2008 which will award a Mac Book Air and other nice prices the most promising approaches to exposing the content of existing Web applications as Linked Data on the Web as well as to projects that publish high-impact open data sets as Linked Data.
• 2008-03-22: Triplify - a small plugin for database backed Web applications for exposing Linked Data and RDF/JSON released.
• 2008-02-27: Tim Berners-Lee Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web and Linked Data - Podcast and Transcript available
• 2008-02-03: Linked Data Planet - Conference & Expo (June 17 - 18, 2008, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, USA) announced.
• 2008-01-31: riese, the RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort) has been launched - the goal is to serve the entire Eurostat dataset (some 3 billion triples). This is the first linked-data set deployed in XHTML+RDFa; riese offers links to other LOD data sets and introduces a new interlinking method, called User Contributed Interlinking (UCI).

2007

• 2007-12-18: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License (PDDL) and Community Norms released for review.
• 2007-11-28: WWW2008 workshop about Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008) announced.
• 2007-11-15: Linking Open Data project member Revyu.com wins the 2007 Semantic Web Challenge at ISWC+ASWC 2007.
• 2007-11-06: Two new Semantic Web Search Engines released: 1. Sindice developed by DERI Ireland, currently indexes 11 million RDF documents; 2. Falcons developed by IWS China, currently indexes 17 million "objects" from 2 million RDF documents.
• 2007-10-08: DBpedia now links to OpenCyc concepts.
• 2007-09-12: A Linked Data version of Wikicompany, the worldwide business directory that anyone can edit, is made available by OpenLink Software. It has been extracted using the DBpedia software. Example entries: Northwest Airlines, Apple Computer.
• 2007-09-11: flickr wrappr provides photos of DBpedia resources from flickr.
• 2007-08-31: Joshua Tauberer's GovTrack.us has followed the U.S. Congress since 2004. All members, bills and votes are now available via dereferenceable URIs, in addition to the existing RDF dumps and SPARQL endpoint.
• 2007-08-24: Michael Smethurst from the BBC has published data about the TV programmes "Top of the Pops" and "Later with Jools Holland" as linked data at [2]. These data sets are interlinked with Musicbrainz and DBpedia.
• 2007-07-19: Tutorial on How to publish Linked Data on the Web published. The tutorial gives an overview about the ideas behind Linked Data and provides several practical recipes for publishing Linked Data on the Web.
• 2007-07-04: The first draft of the The Semantic Crawling sitemap extension is published. The extensions targets crawling issues associated with sites offering a large number of URI/URLs as linked data.
• 2007-06-01: There is a poster presentation about the Linking Open Data project on Monday at ESWC2007. There is also a Linked Data dinner on Wednesday.
• 2007-06-01: There are some interesting papers about Linked Data at the ESWC Scripting for the Semantic Web workshop including papers about the RDF Book Mashup, Semantic Radar and PTSW, and Sindice
• 2007-05-21: Video covering Paul Miller's Opening the Silos - sustainable models for open data talk from XTech 2007 - Open Data track.
• 2007-05-11: Paul Miller from Talis published two blog posts about the Linked Data sessions at WWW2007 on Wednesday and Friday: Linked Data BOF and Linked Data once again.
• 2007-05-10: Slides about the Linking Open Data project from the WWW2007 F2F meeting.
• 2007-04-20: Linking Open Data F2F Meeting. We will have a first F2F project meeting at WWW2007 in Banff. If you want to join the meeting, please put your name on the Banff (WWW2007) meeting page.
• 2007-04-20: New release of the Semantic Web Client Library including GRDDL support.
• 2007-04-12: Giovanni and Eyal published the Sindice service. Sindice is a linked data search engine which returns ranked lists of "SeeAlso" URLs which contain information about a given URI.
• 2007-04-10: New work starting on the THALIA Testbed and the OLTP Benchmarks for Triplestores.
• 2007-03-21: New release of the DBpedia dataset containing RDF links into Geonames, the RDF Book Mashup and the DBLP bibliography published.
• 2007-03-15: Yves released the dbtune music server.
• 2007-03-10: OpenLink Software has published a new RDF Browser which, like Disco and Tabulator, allows you to browse Linked Data on the Web.
• 2007-02-06: New Linking Open Data mailing list. The list is hosted by the SIMILE project at MIT. Thanks a lot to SIMILE for providing their infrastructure.