Re: Topic "data linking" is missing the the GLD best practices doc

Thanks Olaf, well spotted.
I'm the other editor & am also about to resume edits on the document ....
thanks to your message I realized that I need to update my affiliation ...
;)

Thanks again

Boris


On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Bernadette Hyland
<bhyland@3roundstones.com>wrote:

> Thanks Olaf, very helpful and concise feedback.  Thank you very much.
>
> I'm one of the editors & am about to resume edits on the document & will
> ensure your feedback is addressed.  I'll follow up directly for you to
> review when that is done to ensure we've been sufficiently comprehensive.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernadette Hyland, co-chair
> W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
> Charter: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
>
> On Nov 8, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Olaf Hartig wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I just skimmed the editor's draft for "Best Practices for Publishing
> Linked
> Data" at https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/bp/index.html .
>
> Thanks for your efforts on putting together such a document!
>
> However, a topic that seems to be missing (and that I think is important
> for
> such a document), is how to actually link data.
>
> 1) I don't find any explanation of what it is that makes data "linked".
> There
> is no proper introduction of what a link is in the given context.
>  Actually,
> the noun "link" (or "data link") doesn't appear a single time in the whole
> document.
>
> 2) The document should contain a section on how to create data links
> (within
> an organization's dataset and, more importantly, to data from other
> sources).
>
>
> BTW, originally, I sent this mail to public-gld-wg@w3.org which is the
> address
> given in the "Status of This Document" section. Since, I'm not in the
> group,
> the mail ended up in the moderator's mailbox. I propose to change the
> address
> for public comments given in the document to public-gld-comments@w3.org
>
>
> Best,
> Olaf
>
>
>
>