Thad, I think you are right on the money with this.👍👍 Thanks, —David
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:33 PM Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Community! > > We often act like and think that things are, well ... forever (even our > own lives!). But Time waits for no one. So... > I had posted this over in the LD4 Slack channel but thought that this > would be good for folks here to at least always be aware of and think about > in our growing Linked Data world. > > ---- > All Linked Data efforts need stable identifiers (on both ends of a > "link"). I.E. linking is only good if the other side will be retrievable > and available (online or offline through web/archives/files) throughout the > expected lifetime of an effort and beyond. Think closely about "knowledge > retention" (libraries/books hold knowledge for hundreds of years!) and what > the Linked Data lifecycle itself that ideally will do that for your > projects. Then look towards not the tools, but instead the communities > that are well established and have the likelihood to continue to provide > stable identifiers that are retrievable well into the future + another 100+ > years. This might include government efforts, or communities that have > foundations behind them that are well grounded through philanthropic means > with perpetuity ... to avoid link rot or non-retrievability through > complete void of the knowledge or stable identifiers in the future. > > I'm hopeful that communities will think about data retention policies and > generally "Linked Data Availability" much more deeply and seriously. This > could be likened to something like GitHub's Arctic Vault, Internet Archive, > or decentralized storage solutions like Filecoin, to be able to backup and > retain the knowledge for thousands of years, if need be. > --- > > Thad > https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ > https://calendly.com/thadguidry/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- David McDonell Co-founder & CEO ICONICLOUD, Inc. "Illuminating the cloud" M: 703-864-1203 EM: [email protected] URL: http://iconicloud.com
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