Tom Heath wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for all the responses on this topic, and the offers of assistance
- great to see people's enthusiasm for taking this forward :)
Distilling the comments/responses so far...
1) Static content: I'll work up a more concrete proposal for this and
circulate.
2) Planet: I'll do the same, and work up a plan for implementing this.
Re Yves' question about a list of feeds, this page on the wiki seems
like a good place to start:
http://community.linkeddata.org/MediaWiki/index.php?Listing_of_Blogs
At the very least we can use del.icio.us to tag relevant blogs.
Once that is done you simply import into ODS-Feeds and you have Linked
Data. You also have OPML, RSS, and Atom. Only actions are:
1. Tag in del.icio.us
2. Bind you ODS-Feeds instance to del.icio.us
3. Sync happens
4. Linked Data happens
5. Everything is de-referencable via owners URI or actual Aggregated
Feeds Data Space URI
The only thing missing for a Plant Blog re. ODS-Blog is that we assumed
that a Linked Data corpus would open up User Agents to their choice of
presentation. Since this clearly is a little ahead of time, I'll have
the "Related" feature of ODS-Blog also automatically produce posts from
the "Related" blogs feeds. The net effect is a "Community Blog" (which
is what Planet Blogs are).
Of course, this is optional (as is everything else in the Linked Data
Space) :-)
3) Community site/wiki: it seems that this is well underway - fantastic
:) Sergey, I'll leave you to liaise with Kingsley, Mike and Michael
about this, as they have the means to make it all happen.
David, your Drupal suggestion was very much noted. Did you envisage this
serving the "community" function? I'd be keen to give the ODS install at
community.linkeddata a good go. This work ok for you?
I can instantiate Drupal (if not already done).
It will be at: http://community.linkeddata.org/drupal (just like:
http://demo.openlinksw.com/drupal )
URIs will of the form
http://community.linkeddata.org/drupal/<drupal-account>#this (just
like: http://demo.openlinksw.com/drupal/user/demo#this )
Mike: If you like you can enable Drupal via the conductor, just go to
Admin|Packages and then check the Drupal box, and then click on
"Install" and you're done :-)
One request, Kingsley: can we tweak the MediaWiki config to get prettier
URIs for the pages in the wiki?
Of course :-)
Sensitivity in moving content from ESW seems very important. Does the
community at large agree that moving this content across is desirable in
the long run?
We shouldn't move the data, remember, we are the Data Access by
Reference Tribe :-) Just ensure we maintain Links at relevant levels.
At some point MoinMoin will get the WikiMedia treatment re. RDF Views
(by us or someone else), and this which bode well for the density of the
Linked Data Subject Matter graphs.
Kingsley
OK, more soon :)
Cheers all,
Tom.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Heath
Sent: 14 April 2008 12:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: Developing LinkedData.org
Hi all,
Last year, as it was clear that the Linked Data meme was
spreading, I registered the domain linkeddata.org in order to
be sure that it was in safe hands within the community. Since
that time I have made a few efforts to place some meaningful
links at the domain in the hope that they will be useful, but
haven't had the time to do more with it except set up
subdomains to use for events and the new
community.linkeddata.org area.
Mike Bergman recently pointed out that with the momentum
behind Linked Data growing all the time it's becoming
increasingly important that we use this domain effectively as
a focal point for the community, a home for useful resources,
and a marketing tool to help encourage the spread of Linked Data.
I'm happy to continue administering the domain on behalf of
the community, and Mike and I have had some initial ideas
about how we as a community may use the domain, but as active
members of the Linked Data community we would really value
your comments/suggestions/input about how we might move this
forward. This email is intended to be the start of a dialogue
on this topic.
The kind of ideas/structure we came up with breaks down in
the following
way:
1) (fairly) Static content: such as information about Linked
Data; links to key resources endorsed by the community;
badges people could use on their own sites to promote their
support for/publication of Linked Data; the "cloud" diagram,
if Richard is in favour of moving or mirroring this.
2) Planet Linked Data: blog aggregator on the subject of
Linked Data, in the style of PlanetRDF (with strong cross
links to the Linked Data Planet conference, to avoid confusion!)
3) Community editable content: using the
community.linkeddata.org area, this could link to a broader
range of resources, datasets and sites, tools, best
practices, projects, publications, etc etc, plus any other
aspects that people might wish to use from the ODS
installation. I don't know how others feel, but I for one
feel that we're outgrowing the space on the ESW wiki and
would benefit to moving this somewhere with more room for expansion.
With content in all these areas, the home page at
linkeddata.org could simply be pointers to other locations,
plus fresh content from the Planet and the wiki.
Whatever we decide to offer at linkeddata.org in general, it
would be essential that we distribute the authoring and
maintenance load among a number of people, so that a) no one
person becomes a bottleneck, and b) that the site is well
rooted in the community at large.
It's worth noting that Mike has raised the possibility of
Zitgist contributing some resources to this effort, perhaps
to help with design work or other skills that we don't
necessarily have in great abundance between us ;) Some
support from Talis is also a possibility.
So, that's the background. Please be free, open and honest
with comments and feedback, on any aspect of this issue. My
hope is that we can come up with a rough proposal asap,
hopefully in enough time to make some kind of announcement at
LDOW2008 in Beijing.
Very much looking forward to hearing your thoughts,
Cheers,
Tom.
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Tom Heath
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Platform Team
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Regards,
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