[Om] Natural Numbers as Linked Data [Fwd: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud]

[Christoph LANGE]

Dear all,

  this is an interesting effort.  They basically publish
machine-understandable information (RDF in this case) about all, well,
actually just _some_, natural numbers and sketch how to integrate this with
other datasets, and what benefits it will have.
  
This clearly shows that the semantic web community is interested in numbers,
and obviously we can help them, because we understand numbers.  It turned out
that the principal investigator behind this effort is my co-author from that
WebSci paper I mentioned in previous mails.  I have started negotiations with
him, trying to promote OpenMath as a part of the greater solution.

If you read more closely you will understand why I should really have
forwarded this great announcement right on the day of its appearance.
Nevertheless, all of what I said above is true, I _do_ consider such a
collaboration beneficial for us.

Cheers,

Christoph

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Subject: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud
Date: Thursday 01 April 2010, 11:59:12
From: Denny Vrandecic <dvr at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "semantic-web at w3.org" <semantic-web at w3.org>

We are happy to announce that the Institute AIFB at the KIT is releasing the 
biggest dataset until now to the Linked Open Data cloud. The Linked Open 
Numbers project offers billions of facts about natural numbers, all readily 
available as Linked Data.

Our accompanying peer-reviewed paper [1] gives further details on the 
background and implementation. We have integrated with external data sources 
(linking DBpedia to all their 335 number entities) and also directly link to 
the best-known linked open data browsers from the page.

You can visit the Linked Open Numbers project at:
<http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/>

Or point your linked open data browser directly at:
<http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/n1>

We are happy to have increased the amount of triples on the Web by more than 
14 billion triples, roughly 87.5% of the size of linked data web before this 
release (see paper for details). We hope that the data set will find its 
serendipitous use.

The data set and the publication mechanism was checked pedantically, and we 
expect no errors in the triples. If you do find some, please let us know. We 
intend to be compatible with all major linked open data publication standards.

About the AIFB

The Institute AIFB (Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods) at KIT 
is one of the world-leading institutions in Semantic Web technology. 
Approximately 20 researchers of the knowledge management research group are 
establishing theoretical results and scalable implementations for the field, 
closely collaborating with the sister institute KSRI (Karlsruhe Service 
Research Institute), the start-up company ontoprise GmbH, and the Knowledge 
Management group at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies. 
Particular emphasis is given to areas such as logical foundations, Semantic 
Web mining, ontology creation engineering and management, RDF data management, 
semantic web search, and the implementation of interfaces and tools. The 
institute is involved in many industry-university co-operations, both on a 
European and a national level, including a number of intelligent Web systems 
case studies. 

Website: <http://www.aifb.kit.edu>

About KIT

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the merger of the former 
Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and the former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. With 
about 8000 employees and an annual budget of 700 million Euros, KIT is the 
largest technical research institution within Germany. KIT is both, a state 
university with research and teaching and, at the same time, a large-scale 
research institution of the Helmholtz Association. KIT has a strong reputation 
as one of Germany’s university of excellence, aiming to set the highest 
standards for education, research and innovation.

Website: <http://www.kit.edu>

[1] Denny Vrandecic, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Uta Lösch: Leveraging 
Non-Lexical Knowledge for the Linked Open Data Web, published in Rodolphe 
Héliot and Antoine Zimmermann (eds.), The Fifth RAFT'2010), the yearly 
bilingual publication on nonchalant research, available at
<http://km.aifb.kit.edu/projects/numbers/linked_open_numbers.pdf>

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Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
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