Hello Alvaro,
I think a big reason is the lack of data. I believe that if governmental
institutions in my country would publish their data as five star data
there would be a boom in development of civic apps, and in the
publication of other data sets as Linked Data too. As things stand now,
the core of national or regional data that is published as Linked Data
is so small that it can very easily be ignored. There is no critical mass.
Regards,
Frans
On 26-6-2013 16:03, Alvaro Graves wrote:
Hello everyone,
A few days ago I attended ABRELATAM'13 an unconference focused on Open
Data in Latin America. I proposed a session about Open Data + Linked
Data to discuss how semantics and LOD in general can help government
and civi organizations. I want to share the main ideas that emerged
from the conversation:
- SW/LOD sounds really cool and the direction where thing should move.
- However there are many technical aspects that remain unsolved
- Since for many people having a relatively good solution using CSV,
JSON, etc. is easier, they don't want to use SW/LOD because it is an
overkill and too complicated.
So my question is: Why we don't see lots of civic apps using Linked
Data? Where are the SW activists? Why we haven't been able to
demonstrate to the hacker community the benefits of using semantic
technologies? Is it because they are hard to use? They don't scale
well in many cases (as a googled pointed out)? Are we too busy working
in academia/businesses?
I know very few civic apps using semantic technologies and I don't
think I have seen anyone that has made real impact in any country. I
would love if you can prove me wrong and if we can discuss how can we
involve more activists and hackers into the SW/LOD community.
Alvaro Graves-Fuenzalida
Web: http://graves.cl - Twitter: @alvarograves
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