Mark, Yes, I agree that there is no substitute for proper management of metadata, and assuming that that continues, the output of our institutional repositories will help the stores that are collecting and inferencing relationships generate better quality information. Which we can all reuse to inform the process of actively managing the metadata. IMHO, Longwell (and similar) provides an excellent platform for this as it doesn't assume it knows the answer, and still encourages the human being to take control. Ian
On 6 Mar 2008, at 00:29, Mark Diggory wrote: > > > I think the community is banking on what your suggesting being the > case... at least if this diagram is accurate concerning Linked > Data... ;-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Linking-Open-Data- > diagram_2007-09.png > > But, I still ponder that our current case seems "misapplied". We > loosely manage a set of content in one DSpace instance, if we could > just get it under better management and correct the variation at its > source, we may be better off than doing it using inference. We are > investing allot to make disambiguities and equivalences on data for > which we already control the publication of. Rather than have it > isolated to some "presentation layer", I want the result of that > effort to "stick", I 'd rather see the content corrected at its > source. I feel that inference just isn't a replacement for better > management of the metadata within our own system. > > Using these sort of equivalencies seems much more applicable to cases > where you do not actually manage the original data, not as a > replacement for actively maintaining and cleaning up ones data > locally in a controlled service such as DSpace. It would be great if > such identity references/services could ultimately be used as > authorities to assist curators in cleaning up their metadata (or in > reducing the variance coming from users in the first place). If > proper feedbacks could be created in a tool such as dspace to place > authority controls (or at least suggested values) on such metadata > during submission/update, I think they would have allot of "traction" > in the community. > > Cheers, > Mark _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
