On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Lee Passey <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you give us a better description of this "ecosystem?" What existing, > or in-development, applications would consume OL data? What would they > use it for? It seems to me that the proposed preference for FOAF, with > its accompanying incompleteness, is mostly speculative at this point; > that is, /if/ OL provided data using the FOAF vocabulary, and /if/ > future applications had a use for OL data /then/ something useful could > happen. But what if the predicates never materialize?
I don't want to become a Linked Data apologist, but at the same time I honestly think the Linked Data revolution will not be televised :-) Does the BBC publishing RDF using FOAF count for you: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8.rdf They derive their data from musicbrainz, dbpedia and uberblic and use it for displaying information in their web pages. The mission of the Open Library project is summarized by Brewster Kahle as: One web page for every book. It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to use those web pages for making structured data available as well. And for relating those resources together using RDF. If we all just settled for the status quo there probably wouldn't be any web at all. //Ed _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
