(By Frank van Harmelen)

It’s a true-ism by now to say that the Linked Open Data initiative has been a hugely important driver for the Semantic Web in the past two years. But its emphasis on providing a large dataset seemed sometimes to go at the cost of ignoring the schema-side of things. It was therefore an important development that in September of this year, the OpenLink Software folk combined their UMBEL ontology (closely based on the OpenCyc ontology from LarKC participant Cyc) with the DBPedia data. 

A very good interview discussing the combination between the very large dataset (DBPedia) and the very large ontology (UMBEL/OpenCyc) can be found at http://blog.semantic-web.at/2008/11/10/umbel-dbpedia-futureweb-ecology-interview/.

Read this, click through on the rich links provided in there, and you’ll never doubt if there is an eco-system for large reasoning infrastructures such as LarKC!