About the diagram

This web page is the home of the LOD cloud diagram. This image shows datasets that have been published in the Linked Data format.

You may reuse the diagram under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The diagrams on this website contain the attribution statement within the image, and if they are used without modification this attribution statement is sufficient. If you modify any images, for example by cropping out the attribution statement, please include a statement with the image stating that it was derived from lod-cloud.net.

Maintainers

The diagram is maintained by John P. McCrae for the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. The following people have previously maintained the diagram or have also helped in current development of the diagram:

• Andrejs Abele
• Paul Buitelaar
• Richard Cyganiak
• Anja Jentzsch
• Vladimir Andryushechkin
• Jeremy Debattista
• Jamal Nasir

Contributing to the Diagram

First, make sure that you publish data according to the Linked Data principles. We interpret this as:

• There must be resolvable http:// (or https://) URIs.
• They must resolve, with or without content negotiation, to RDF data in one of the popular RDF formats (RDFa, RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples).
• The dataset must contain at least 1000 triples. (Hence, your FOAF file most likely does not qualify.)
• The dataset must be connected via RDF links to a dataset that is already in the diagram. This means, either your dataset must use URIs from the other dataset, or vice versa. We arbitrarily require at least 50 links.
• Access of the entire dataset must be possible via RDF crawling, via an RDF dump, or via a SPARQL endpoint.

You may add a dataset by submitting it at this form here The process for adding datasets is still under development, please contact John P. McCrae for any issues.

Data and code

The raw data is available here. The diagrams are generated by LOD Cloud Draw.

History

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	White			Colored			Graph file	Dataset list	Datasets
2024-11-24		svg	json	1349
2024-10-25		svg	json	1349
2024-09-26		svg	json	1346
2024-08-25		svg	json	1346
2024-07-04		svg	json	1345
2023-09-03		png		svg	json	1314
2022-11-03		png	svg	json	1268
2020-05-20		png	svg	json	1,255
2019-03-29		png	svg		1,239
2019-01-08		png	svg		1,234
2018-11-26		png	svg		1,231
2018-10-31		png	svg		1,229
2018-08-28		png	svg		1,224
2018-07-30		png	svg		1,220
2018-06-28		png	svg		1,205
2018-05-30		png	svg	json	1,186
2018-04-30		png	svg	json	1,184
2017-08-22		png	svg	json	1,163
2017-02-20		png	svg		1,139
2017-01-26		png	svg		1,146
2014-08-30	png	pdf	svg	png	pdf	svg			570
2011-09-19	png	pdf	svg	png	pdf	svg			295
2010-09-22	png	pdf	svg	png	pdf	svg			203
2009-07-14	png	pdf	svg						95
2009-03-27	png	pdf	svg	png	pdf	svg			93
2009-03-05	png	pdf	svg	png	pdf	svg			89
2008-09-18	png	pdf	svg						45
2008-03-31	png	pdf	svg						34
2008-02-28	png	pdf	svg						32
2007-11-10	png	pdf	svg						28
2007-11-07	png								28
2007-10-08	png								25
2007-05-01	png								12

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