Abstract
In this article, we discuss how Linked Data is suitable to create cross-disciplinary database with respect to the mechanism and the existing datasets. Linked Data mechanism is to provide “web of data” by describing data with RDF while the traditional Web pages consist of “web of documents” with HTML. In particular, DBpedia, LOD of Wikipedia, has accelerated creation of other LODs since DBpedia works as a hub to link cross-disciplinary datasets. We have launched DBpedia Japanese with expecting the same effect in Japan. Indeed, we observed many new activities to expend Linked Data cloud in Japan, more than 50 technical reports, 20 directly linked datasets and 15 applications.
