I caught an interesting surprise when I checked out my web site usage stats. A few semantic web documents are the most popular pages! Early September I published an entry on using RDF/OWL for extensibility and versioning XML. This page links to some RDF instances and OWL ontologies. Three(3) of these linked pages combine for 10% of my hits (400 out of 4000) on Nov. 1. These pages have shown steadily increasing hit rates.
It's very interesting to note the popularity of the semantic web documents, yet at the same time puzzling as to the rationale. The blog entry only had 12 hits and the referrer logs aren't providing any hints as to who's referring to it. Google didn't find any links to the pages.
Is there some RDF/OWL search engine that has it's hooks in? Have a variety of people linked to these files but not the blog entry?
And how to interpret the results.. Does this show the Semantic Web increasing in interest? Or extensibility and Versioning increasing in interest? Or nothing at all but some wierd statistical aberation?