Now that we've established, whatever TimBL's Note says, that Linked Data
doesn't require SPARQL, RDF or HTTP it's time we talked about the
elephant in the room: URIs.
A thought experiment (literally): in my brain is a lot of knowledge -
'metadata' if you will - connected up in a graph. I can't read someone
else's thoughts, in the form of a writing - whether it's a book with an
ISBN (and hence a URI), or a crudely drawn message on a bathroom wall -
and integrate that into the graph.
Sure, I don't produce RDF, or speak HTTP, very easily, and my thoughts
don't have global identifiers, but the whole beauty of Linked Data is
that it is loosely coupled to computers anyway.
What conclusion do I draw?
I've seen it. It's people.
Linked Data is made out of people.
LINKED DATA IS PEOPLE.
WE'VE GOT TO STOP THEM... SOMEHOW!
Barry (you can't throw me to the lions - I'm Charlton Heston)
