I happen to agree with Martin here. My concern is that the naïveté of most of the research in LOD creates the illusion that data integration is an easily solvable problem -- while it is well known that it is the most important open problem in the database community (30+ years of research) where there is a huge amount of money, research, and resources invested in it. This will eventually fire back to us - the whole community including me - since people will not trust us anymore. Specifically, you can't deny that in practice the mythical picture gives this illusion; otherwise, why have it? cheers --e.
On 22 Oct 2010, at 16:49, Chris Bizer wrote: > Hi Martin, > >> The fact that there is obviously a lot of low quality data on the >> current Web should not encourage us to publish masses of low-quality >> data and then celebrate ourselves for having achieved a lot. The >> current Web tolerates buggy markup, broken links, and questionable >> content of all types. But I hope everybody agrees that the Web is >> successful because of this tolerance, not because of the buggy content >> itself. Quite to the contrary, the Web has been broadly adopted >> because of the lots of commonly agreed high-quality contents. > > Sure, where is the problem? > > The same holds for the Web of Data: There is a lot of high quality content > and a lot of low quality content. > Which means - as on the classic Web - that the data consumer need to decide > which content it wants to use. > > If the Web has proved anything than that having a completely open > architecture is a crucial factor for being able to succeed on global scale. > The Web of Linked Data also aims at global scale. Thus, I will keep on > betting on open solutions without curation or any other bottle neck. > >> If you continue to live the linked data landfill style it will fall >> back on you, reputation-wise, funding-wise, and career-wise. Some >> rules hold in ecosystems of all kinds and sizes. > > Sorry, you are leaving the grounds of scientific discussion here and I will > thus not comment. > > Best, > > Chris > > >> Best >> >> Martin > > >
