Thank you for sharing your opinions, Sebastian. Cheers, Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:43 AM Sebastian Hellmann < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thad, > On 20.09.19 15:28, Thad Guidry wrote: > > With my tech evangelist hat on... > > Google's philanthropy is nearly boundless when it comes to the promotion > of knowledge. Why? Because indeed it's in their best interest otherwise no > one can prosper without knowledge. They aggregate knowledge for the > benefit of mankind, and then make a profit through advertising ... all > while making that knowledge extremely easy to be found for the world. > > > I am neither pro-Google or anti-Google per se. Maybe skeptical and > interested in what is the truth behind the truth. Google is not synonym to > philanthropy. Wikimedia is or at least I think they are doing many things > right. Google is a platform, so primarily they "aggregate knowledge for > their benefit" while creating enough incentives in form of accessibility > for users to add the user's knowledge to theirs. It is not about what > Google offers, but what it takes in return. 20% of employees time is also > an investment in the skill of the employee, a Google asset called Human > Capital and also leads to me and Denny from Google discussing whether > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Knowledge_Graph is content marketing > or knowledge (@Denny: no offense, legit arguments, but no agenda to resolve > the stalled discussion there). Except I don't have 20% time to straighten > the view into what I believe would be neutral, so pushing it becomes a > resource issue. > > I found the other replies much more realistic and the perspective is yet > unclear. Maybe Mozilla wasn't so much frenemy with Google and got removed > from the browser market for it. I am also thinking about Linked Open Data. > Decentralisation is quite weak, individually. I guess spreading all the > Wikibases around to super-nodes is helpful unless it prevents the formation > of a stronger lobby of philanthropists or competition to BigTech. Wikidata > created some pressure on DBpedia as well (also opportunities), but we are > fine since we can simply innovate. Others might not withstand. Microsoft > seems to favor OpenStreetMaps so I am just asking to which degree Open > Source and Open Data is being instrumentalised by BigTech. > > Hence my question, whether it is compromise or be removed. (Note that > states are also platforms, which measure value in GDP and make laws and > roads and take VAT on transactions. Sometimes, they even don't remove > opposition.) > > -- > All the best, > Sebastian Hellmann > > Director of Knowledge Integration and Linked Data Technologies (KILT) > Competence Center > at the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) at Leipzig University > Executive Director of the DBpedia Association > Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, > http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt > <http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt> > Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann > Research Group: http://aksw.org >
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