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A comment on Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk: The next Web of open, linked data. Parent comment

Re:Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk: The next Web of open, linked ... by joshu on Monday March 16, 2009 @03:04PM (#518592)
These are metadata, not numerically intensive data. There's plenty of file formats already out there - netCDF, HDF, etc.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk: The next Web of open, linked ... by ericP on Monday March 16, 2009 @05:18PM (#518802)
I think almost none of the LOD cloud is metadata. It's all information like the population of Berlin, or the proteins which connect to some receptor.

I've seen some apps which are using RDF mostly for metadata, but in the life sciences world, we use it for the nitty gritty data.

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