All,
Sorry, the body of my last message didn't seem to appear on the list.
I had a question about licensing. Should licenses try to get web publishers to
embed original URIs into web implementations - a sort of invisible attribution
- where practical, and
is this practical and/or desirable.
There is another reason for including URIs which might not be considered in the
Academy. It allows knowledge organisations to
see how its knowledge is being enriched and provide options for bringing it
back into the original information system infrastructures so it can be
preserved - a sort of mega and indirect crowd sourcing but across the Internet
rather than any particular web site.
If I publish a cuneiform data record and it is reused in different projects and
applications, and the data is enriched with annotations, corrections, additions
etc., if the original URI is embedded, I can harvest this information and
enrich the object record against the original URI so that subsequent users
(including our own researchers and audiences) benefit by this continual
community improvement. This is one of the objectives of the ResearchSpace
project - to encourage enrichment against institutional URIs so that research
projects (which are temporary and are limited in the way that they give back to
the community) have a more permanent and long lasting legacy.
Dominic
________________________________
From: Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 30 March 2013, 14:35
Subject: Why is it bad practice to consume Linked Data and publish opaque HTML
pages?
All,
" Citing sources is useful for many reasons: (a) it shows that it isn't a
half-baked idea I just pulled out of thin air, (b) it provides a reference for
anybody who wants to dig into the subject, and (c) it shows where the ideas
originated and how they're likely to evolve." -- John F. Sowa [1].
An HTTP URI is an extremely powerful citation and attribution mechanism.
Incorporate Linked Data principles and the power increases exponentially.
It is okay to consume Linked Data from wherever and publish HTML documents
based on source data modulo discoverable original sources Linked Data URIs.
It isn't okay, to consume publicly available Linked Data from sources such as
the LOD cloud and then republish the extracted content using HTML documents,
where the original source Linked Data URIs aren't undiscoverable by humans or
machines.
The academic community has always had a very strong regard for citations and
source references. Thus, there's no reason why the utility of Linked Data URIs
shouldn't be used to reinforce this best-practice, at Web-scale .
Links:
1. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-03/msg00084.html -- ontolog
list post .
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
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