Hi Hugh,
Well Dominic's site is definitely not isolated.
It is very well linked at the ontology level, not instance, however.
I thought his question was timely, since TimBL asked the question at the panel
at LOD2012 as to whether the criteria for inclusion in the LOD Cloud should be
changed.
Yep. As far as I'm concerned, something like a sort of mix between the LOD
cloud and the LOV one (http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/) would be really
interesting.
But still someone needs to volunteer (as opposed to "being requested") to do it
:-)
Personally I think it is a shame that such a resource should lose a lot of its
visibility because it does not pass the rules.
And I think that putting links in simply to get into the Cloud is not something
that should be encouraged - links should be put in because they are sensible.
Without visibility, others (such as you!) will be less aware of it and so not
build the links that would actually bring it into the cloud without Dominic
doing anything (as you are now thinking of doing, since Dominic has made you
more aware of it).
Yep. In fact this is part of the reasons why the Library Linked Data incubator
decided to create its own group on The Data Hub
(http://thedatahub.org/group/lld). It helped us to make the datasets from our
community more visible to our community, without making it a hard pre-requisite
to adhere to other communities' requirements.
Some nodes (or group of nodes) at
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-vocabdataset/#Library_Linked_Data_at_CKAN
are indeed "isolated", in the LOD cloud sense.
Antoine
On 22 May 2012, at 08:42, Antoine Isaac wrote:
Hi Dominic,
I guess that it was with the LOD *cloud* that you had issues. It looks a bit
severe, but I think I understand the motivations: if the cloud admitted
isolated nodes, it would have many of them, and that would look weird... But of
course that does not make your contribution less interesting. On the contrary,
the BL work has incredible potential for our domain!
Btw let me know if you're interested in links with data.europeana.eu. We can
maybe try something...
Best,
Antoine
PS: I'm copying the email to the LOD-LAM list: I suppose some people will be
interested to continue the discussion with you there!
+1 (best I can do). FWIW, the day buying your way in ceases to be the certain
method of acceptance will be a very good day for all.
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*From:* Dominic Oldman<[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Monday, May 21, 2012 1:10 PM
*Subject:* Cultural Heritage Data
Hugh suggested that I post this.
We are currently working with other museums aligning our catalogue data using
the CIDOC-CRM ontology. We can now run single federated queries based on
semantic alignment without the need to insert specific linking triples. When we
applied to advertise our site on the LOD cloud we were turned down because we
hadn’t inserted specific links to other data sources. I realise that I could
just stuff in a few links to Dbpedia to get accepted - but given that we can
harmonise data to a very high degree with another open CRM RDF data source
perhaps we should still be allowed formal acceptance to the open data community.
Dominic Oldman
*Deputy Head of IS *
*IS Development Manager*
*ResearchSpace Principal Investigator*
*British Museum*
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