On 5/18/2013 8:46 AM, David Wood wrote:
Good work, Pascal. Some minor comments:
1) Licenses (and license compliance) are issues with much broader
communities, including Open Source software and other forms of open
content.
yes, certainly :)
2) I wish you had used the term Linked *Open* Data to avoid purely
commercial users of Linked Data being confused.
I guess I'm guilty (as are many others in fact) of not being very clear
in my terminology regarding the distinction of Liked Data and Linked
Open Data. But then, our text shows that one has to take the "open" with
a caveat ... so perhaps the confusion in terminology is actually
indicative of a deeper problem ... ?
Pascal.
Regards, Dave -- http://about.me/david_wood
On May 17, 2013, at 22:15, Pascal Hitzler <[email protected]>
wrote:
We just finished a piece indicating serious legal issues regarding
the commercialization of Linked Data - this may be of general
interest, hence the post. We hope to stimulate discussions on this
issue (hence the provokative title).
Available from
http://knoesis.wright.edu/faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.pdf
Abstract. Linked Data (LD) has been an active research area for
more than 6 years and many aspects about publishing, retrieving,
linking, and cleaning Linked Data have been investigated. There
seems to be a broad and general agreement that in principle LD
datasets can be very useful for solving a wide variety of problems
ranging from practical industrial analytics to highly specific
research problems. Having these notions in mind, we started
exploring the use of notable LD datasets such as DBpedia, Freebase,
Geonames and others for a commercial application. However, it turns
out that using these datasets in realistic settings is not always
easy. Surprisingly, in many cases the underlying issues are not
technical but legal barriers erected by the LD data publishers. In
this paper we argue that these barriers are often not justified,
detrimental to both data publishers and users, and are often built
without much consideration of their consequences.
Authors: Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Chitra
Venkatramani
-- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State
University, Dayton, OH [email protected]
http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook:
http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal:
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
--
Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
[email protected] http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/
Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org
Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
