RE: Publication of scientific research

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hopwood
It looks like a (modern) role for publishers could be to actually put order in metadata provided by users. As metadata librarian (apparently they used to call this cataloguing) now working halfway between publishing and cultural heritage, I can only second this. -Original Message-

RE: DBPedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcos_Escobedo

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Hopwood
Wait... there are mistakes in a publically-editable, non-reviewed database? From: Vishal Sinha [mailto:vishal.sinha...@yahoo.com] Sent: 11 February 2013 11:01 To: dbpedia-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: public-lod@w3.org Subject: DBPedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Marcos_Escobedo Hi, The

RE: Data sets of LOD

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Hopwood
At the moment, how much of the data publication and reuse is also volunteer / short-term project dependent? If a consortium of big institutional LOD publishers (e.g. national libraries, museums, ID providers like CrossRef, DataCite, ISBN-A etc.) got together to do a currency service, with

RE: Data sets of LOD

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Hopwood
? -Original Message- From: Kingsley Idehen [mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com] Sent: 21 November 2012 14:21 To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Data sets of LOD On 11/21/12 5:58 AM, Michael Hopwood wrote: At the moment, how much of the data publication and reuse is also volunteer / short-term

RE: Property Guidance

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Hopwood
Hi Leigh, At the risk of being repetitive, it is another fairly good use case for the VMF architecture: http://www.doi.org/VMF/documents.html The difference there is that you build consensus with the publisher of the vocabulary/property at the same time as building the equivalence table, and

RE: Property Guidance

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Hopwood
PS... oh, look... Listpoint has free and paid aspects too ;) http://wiki.listpoint.co.uk/index.php?title=Does_it_cost_anything_to_use%3F -Original Message- From: Michael Hopwood Sent: 26 October 2012 13:51 To: 'John Erickson' Cc: Leigh Dodds; public-lod community Subject: RE: Property

RE: Property Guidance

2012-10-26 Thread Michael Hopwood
of it, and actually, as I said, compared to the costs of some major (and even some minor) existing standards, the VMF's registration fees are really not that huge. -Original Message- From: John Erickson [mailto:olyerick...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 October 2012 12:50 To: Michael Hopwood Cc: Leigh

RE: Linked Data Adoption Challenges Poll

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Hopwood
Yes, although note Wolters Kluwer's involvement in LOD2 project: http://lod2.eu/Partner/wkd.html From: Dawson, Laura [mailto:laura.daw...@bowker.com] Sent: 13 September 2012 17:59 To: Melvin Carvalho Cc: Kingsley Idehen; public-lod@w3.org; public-...@w3.org; semantic-...@w3.org Subject: Re:

RE: Linked Data Adoption Challenges Poll

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Hopwood
Hmmm. This is a good point. A couple extra questions giving the dimensions of intended use (e.g. timescale, geo, edu/public/private, rough idea of technical platform) would make such data useful. From: Kingsley Idehen [mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com] Sent: 14 September 2012 15:23 To:

RE: Deserted Island Sem Web reading list

2012-09-13 Thread Michael Hopwood
It's probably worth noting on this line of thought that Unglue.It has now started releasing published books into the CC world, as far as I can see, by sort of buying out the copyright (anyone who understands the business model please correct/clarify!): https://unglue.it/ Cheers, M

RE: Deserted Island Sem Web reading list

2012-09-13 Thread Michael Hopwood
At the risk of becoming repetitious, this is the kind of business case that Unglue.it is aiming at: http://www.teleread.com/tag/unglue-it/ - see the comments on these threads for some back-and-forth about paying for books for yourself, for the world, for specific groups of users... translation

RE: Reuse

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Hopwood
Diverse vocabulary standards I think are neither especially good or bad in this sense, they are basically just a natural consequence of the fact that: To describe a set of stuff in a given context you need a(nother) specific vocabulary - this is just the way that structured, formal language

RE: Reuse

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Hopwood
It has to be said, as well, that commercial semantic reasoning doesn't tend to use the lightweight approach of RDF and OWL for serious applications: http://www.rightscom.com/Portals/0/Formal_Ontology_for_Media_Rights_Transactions.pdf -m From: Michael Hopwood [mailto:mich...@editeur.org] Sent

RE: Decommissioning a linked data site

2012-05-31 Thread Michael Hopwood
Sustainability of LOD vocabularies? Isn't there a project for that? http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/about/ From: Bradley Allen [mailto:bradley.p.al...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 May 2012 23:03 To: Tim Berners-Lee Cc: Antoine Isaac; public-lod@w3.org community; rufus.poll...@okfn.org Pollock

RE: Vocabulary for Research/Education institutions?

2012-05-09 Thread Michael Hopwood
Hi Daniel, Have you seen RBKExplorer? http://www.rkbexplorer.com/explorer/#display=project-{http%3A//wiki.rkbexplorer.com/id/resist} I think Hugh Glaser has done quite a lot of work on this. Cheers, Michael From: Daniel Schwabe [mailto:dschw...@inf.puc-rio.br] Sent: 09 May 2012 17:12 To:

RE: Annotating IR of any relevance? (httpRange-14)

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Hopwood
the problems at hand. Those standards are specifically in favour of *interoperability* which is surely the name of the game here...? -Original Message- From: Dan Brickley [mailto:dan...@danbri.org] Sent: 26 March 2012 13:30 To: Michael Hopwood Cc: Giovanni Tummarello; public-lod@w3.org

RE: Annotating IR of any relevance? (httpRange-14)

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Hopwood
Hi Dan, Giovanni, Thank you for this dialogue - I've been following this thread (or trying to!) for some days now and wondering where is the data model in all this?. At the point where Quite different notions of IR are bouncing around... would it not make sense to focus on the fact that there