New York Times Publishes News Vocabulary in RDF

January 26, 2010

The New York Times has published a vocabulary of approximately 10,000 terms as linked open data. This vocabulary helps define and reference people, places, and companies. It lives online, where anyone can use it under a creative commons license. This is an exciting project, one we applaud and hope other news organizations will start to build such things collaboratively. We hope it proves more useful than some of the existing vocabularies published by other news organizations. Pull readers note: there is NO REASON for all the news organizations to do this on their own! Please let us know if you hear of any collaborations – we want to showcase them. See the New York Times vocabulary at Data.Nytimes.com.