What is the graph structure of the Web of Data?

What is it about?

We examine the graph structure formed by data that is either published as Linked Open Data or embedded in Web pages.

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Why is it important?

A common approach to discover data on the public Web is the so-called "follow your nose" approach, which means that further data can be discovered by following RDF links. In this way crawlers can incrementally accumulate a knowledge base from all data that is maintained in a distributed fashion. Understanding the graph structure of the Web of Data is important to build effective crawlers and to understand the limitations of those (e.g. data that cannot be reached).