Published by Equipo GNOSS
14/06/2013
The ongoing debate around the question whether ‘there is money in linked data or not’ has now been formulated more poignantly by Prateek Jain recently: He is asking, ‘why linked open data hasn’t been used that much so far besides for research projects?‘. I believe there are two reasons (amongst others) for the low uptake of LOD in non-academic settings which haven’t been discussed in detail until today: 1. The LOD cloud covers mainly ‘general knowledge‘ in contrast to ‘domain knowledge‘ 2. Most datasets of the LOD cloud are maintained by a single person or by nobody at all (at least as stated on datahub.io)