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Well it's that time of year again. The 15th annual stamp collecting edition of the journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), also known as the 2008 Database issue [1], was published earlier this week. This year there are 1078 databases listed in the collection, 110 more than the previous one (see Figure 1). As we pass the one thousand databases mark (1kDB) I wonder, what proportion of the data in these databases will never be used?

As it stands, the Semantic Web will not achieve widespread adoption, according to Rob McCool of Yahoo! / Stanford in his article Rethinking the Semantic Web, part 1 published in the nov/dec issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Rob outlines several reasons for this, but we have to wait for part 2 to see Yahoo's solution, which will be published in January 2006.