On May 19, 2013, at 23:42, Pascal Hitzler <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 ... ?


Hah, yes. I see your point :)

Regards,
Dave


> 
> 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
> 
> 

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