Whatever is decided here, I offer SemanticWeb.com as a platform for announcing a blackout as well as any supporting statements anyone wants to put forth. I will continue to follow this thread, but if anyone wishes to reach out to me privately, please feel free: e...@semanticweb.com.
Cheers, --Eric On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com>wrote: > On 1/17/12 10:38 AM, Bryan Burgers wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Kingsley Idehen<kide...@openlinksw.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 1/17/12 10:01 AM, Jörn Hees wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On 17. Jan. 2012, at 15:08, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 1/17/12 8:39 AM, Mischa Tuffield wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Following on from the news that the English Wikipedia is going dark in >>>>>> opposition to the SOPA/PIPA tomorrow (2012-01-18) given the activity >>>>>> in the >>>>>> US [1], I wonder whether we as the Semantic Web Community feel like we >>>>>> should turn around and turn off dbpedia? What do people think? >>>>>> Wouldn't that >>>>>> be a nice show of support to Wikipedia, dbpedia's parent project, I >>>>>> think so >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>> Note that en.wikipedia.org won't be "turned off", they will have a >>>> black >>>> click through page before being able to access articles. >>>> While ok (for me) for pages intended for humans, i don't know if it's >>>> wise >>>> to do the same for machine accessible data. >>>> >>> >>> In the case of DBpedia that means: /page/ links can do similar. >>> >>> As for the machine vs human matter, SOPA doesn't make any distinction. >>> Same >>> really applies to Linked Data, its all about representation formats for >>> structured data via description oriented directed graphs. >>> >>> >>> The machines will get confused. >>>> >>> >>> That's part of the point. >>> >> Except that most machines don't understand SOPA, and won't call their >> representatives. Although SOPA (and PIPA) affect machines, too, it's >> the humans that can affect whether the legislation passes. So it's all >> about informing humans with the hope that they'll take action. >> > > The machines are driven by Humans. There's always a human at the end of > the value chain. > >> >> When Wikipedia goes black, there will be information on WHY it has >> gone black, and what SOPA means to internet users. >> > Fine, and that can also make its way, via Linked Data mesh to the human at > the end of the value chain. > > >> If the data portion of DBPedia goes black, there will be no >> information on WHY it has gone black and there will be no mention of >> SOPA, so there will be no action taken on the part of humans. >> > > Of course not, it might even be a nice Linked Data implications showcase. > > Yes, >> humans eventually see the data that the machines get from DBPedia, but >> if the data portion of DBPedia goes black, the applications that use >> it as a datasource will probably just say DBPedia is down, or that >> data is unavailable; no mention will be made about SOPA. >> > > Not if done right. The humans at the end of the value chain will know why > :-) > > Kingsley > >> >> Bryan >> >> > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder& CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: > http://www.openlinksw.com/**blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen> > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: > https://plus.google.com/**112399767740508618350/about<https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about> > LinkedIn Profile: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/**kidehen<http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen> > > > > > > > -- *Eric Axel Franzon* Vice President of Community SemanticWeb.com 6080 Center Dr., 6th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90045 e...@semanticweb.com O: +1.323.856.1474 C: +1.323.309.1601 LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/ericfranzon Twitter: http://twitter.com/SemanticWeb_com