The SPIRE project is a new US effort to understand how semantic web technologies can help specifically ecoinformatics (not something I'd heard of before, but intra-word syntax is a wonderful thing).
They've started a blog, and one of their early postings is about how they're planning to link in with the Linking Open Data project (perhaps 'movement' is a better term, or 'underground').
I'd really love to see the VO sitting in the middle of that diagram, and it won't be that hard.
