On 2/8/09 10:28 AM, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
Georgi, All,
If we don't reward the Linked Data publishers who provide clean data and
penalize those who don't, there will never be an incentive to do it right.
I couldn't agree more. I have contemplated about that recently (p16 in [1])
and, yes, one goal of voiD is helping publishers to concisely express what
their dataset is about, under which license it is available, which
vocabularies are used or how many triples one can expect [2] and on the
other hand how the dataset is linked with other datasets [3].
Looking forward to find and use a respective voiD description for DBpedia ;)
VoiD for DBpedia is coming. As per usual, it isn't simple work (even
though the end product sometimes distorts the work involved).
Our incentive: simple, it showcases a tough task handled by a serious
Linked Data platform i.e., OpenLink Virtuoso.
Kingsley
Cheers,
Michael
[1] http://www.talis.com/nodalities/pdf/nodalities_issue4.pdf
[2] http://rdfs.org/ns/void-guide#sec_1_Describing_Datasets
[3] http://rdfs.org/ns/void-guide#sec_2_Describing_Dataset_Interlink
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