On 10/21/10 8:45 AM, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
(cutting down lists as cross-posting is against W3C list policy)
I'm in general with Chris. Of course RDFa is/can be used to do Linked Data.
But rather than wasting our time in ranting how bad the world is, how about
just making it a better place?
1. Clearly, we need to motivate why interlinking is beneficial or at least
offer 3rd party services that do the job for the publishers (if they don't
see the benefit or have other priorities).
2. Again, rather than discussing endlessly about what is fair and what is
not and who should be there and who not and so on ... hey, it's the Web. An
open, free ecosystem where you can just put up your own visualisation,
diagram, stats, etc. - tthe community will then decide how valuable and
useful it is.
/me back to work now; trying to help solve the issues rather than talking
about it in the first place ;)
Correcting one factual error in Gio's post, though:
So danny ayers has fun linking to dbpedia so he is in there with his
joke dataset, but you cant credibly bring that argument to large
retailers so they're left out?
Denny Vrandecic.
Cheers,
Michael
Michael,
Bottom line, the community needs to imbibe the Nike motto: Just Do It!
Burning cycles on conversations that are basically indirect-speak for:
"could you also do this for me, in your own time etc..", gets us
nowhere. Every contribution matters, but we can't indirectly put the
burden on a few community members, repeatedly.
Everyone: Just Do It!
The Web of Linked Data is about the freedom to say anything, about
anything, whenever, and from wherever etc..
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
President& CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
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