Big Data Market Description

This post serves two purposes:

1. demonstrate the use of Nanotation as a mechanism for creating Linked Open Data "on the fly" using a LinkedIn post
2. craft a description (using RDF Language based digital sentences) of the Big Data market segment that comprehensible to both humans and machines .

What follows is an example of Nanotation as outlined above.

## Nanotation Start ##
<>
a foaf:Document, schema:WebPage;
foaf:topic <https://twitter.com/hashtag/BigData#this>,
<#BigDataMarketSegment>, <#BigDataMarketSegmentSize> .

<#BigDataMarketSegment>
a oplmkt:MarketSegment ;
wdrs:describedby <> ;
rdfs:label "Big Data Market" ;
rdfs:comment """Market for products and services related to Big Data technology.""" ;
is foaf:primaryTopic of <http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Big_Data_Vendor_Revenue_and_Market_Forecast_2012-2017> ;
oplmkt:seller [ a oplmkt:MarketSellerEntity ;
gr:offers [ a gr:ProductOrService ;
oplmkt:marketSegmentFocus <#BigDataMarketSegment> ]
] ;
oplmkt:buyer [ a oplmkt:MarketBuyerEntity ;
gr:seeks [ a gr:ProductOrService ;
oplmkt:marketSegmentFocus <#BigDataMarketSegment> ]
] ;
oplmkt:size <#BigDataMarketSegmentSize> .

<#BigDataMarketSegmentSize>
a oplmkt:MarketSizeSpecification ;
foaf:depiction <http://wikibon.org/w/images/6/62/BDforecast2012.png> ;
rdfs:label "Big Data Technology Market Size" ;
rdfs:comment """Wikibon projects the Big Data market to top $18 billion in 2013, a growth rate of 61%.
Looking beyond 2013, Wikibon forecasts the total Big Data market
to approach $50 billion by 2017, which translates to a 31% compound annual
growth rate over the five-year period 2012-2017.
""" ;
oplmkt:marketSizeValue "28" ;
oplmkt:marketSizeValueCurrencyCode "USD" ;
oplmkt:marketSizeValueScale "Billion" ;
dcterms:source <http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Big_Data_Vendor_Revenue_and_Market_Forecast_2012-2017> .

<https://twitter.com/hashtag/BigData#this>
is foaf:primaryTopic of <http://wikibon.org/blog/the-real-world-of-big-data-infographic/>,
<http://wikibon.org/blog/taming-big-data/> ;
is foaf:topic of
<http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Big_Data_Vendor_Revenue_and_Market_Forecast_2012-2017> .

## Nanotation End ##