Like many newspapers, the New York Times links the first mention
of well known entitles in its articles to a reference page. For
example, a mention of Barack Obama links to a
page which is a collection of basic information on President
Obama and links to relevant stories and other resources that the
Times has created.

Now the Times is also using RDF to publish some of information
as linked open data. Yesterday the Times
announced the publication of an LOD collection covering about
5,000 people at http://data.nytimes.com/ under under
a Creative
Commons 3.0 Attribution License and plan to put their full
collection of 30K topics online soon.

“Over the last several months we have manually mapped more than
5,000 person name subject headings onto Freebase and DBPedia. And
today we are pleased to announce the launch of http://data.nytimes.com and the
release of these 5,000 person name subject headings as Linked Open Data.

…

Over the next several months, we plan to expand http://data.nytimes.com to include
each of the nearly 30,000 subject headings we use to power Times
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