Richard wrote:
These are good points, and I don't really disagree with any of them, except perhaps in that I think that at the moment, data quality, a sensible URI scheme, wide coverage, perception of stability, and

Those are, in part, very difficult problems that the community has been working on for the last decade, and will be working on in the next few years. Of course, they are of primary importance. However, this does not mean that working on improving the human-readable interfaces for linked data resources will slow down any of these efforts. Indeed, I think improvements could be made with very little effort (if we compare it to the hundreds of man-years that are devoted into working on these other problems). DBpedia could be quickly improved by making use of the Wikipedia source pages. Pubby-derivate sites could be quickly improved by modifying the style sheet and perhaps adding some additional functionality. The investment of work is miniscule compared to the work that is devoted to some of the bigger problems.

proper marketing are more likely to determine the success of a dataset in attracting links

I think that having good looking web pages to show to end-users and investors are a very important parts of proper marketing.

Cheers,
Matthias

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