Re: Comments on Benefits section

Dear Karen,

Taking your comments into account, I've edited the Benefits page [1],
essentially the "Benefits for Organizations" and created a new section
(or created it again, as it was present in the draft benefits) for
librarians, curators and archivists. The way it is worded now, this
section is more concrete, and appears like a consequence of the
benefits for organizations.

I've also edited benefits for patrons a little.

The section on URIs is untouched but I've renamed it "benefits of
using LD technology".

I'd be happy to hear what you think about it, does it improve the text ?
Emma

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Benefits

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> I wasn't sure who to send this to so I am sending it to the WG list...
>
> I wanted to give more specific comments on the Benefits section, as we
> discussed yesterday on the call. Most of them are editorial.
>
> The main sections are:
>    2.1 Benefits of using globally unique identifiers
>    2.2 Benefits to Researchers, Students and Patrons
>    2.3 Benefits to Organizations
>
> There are two topics in that list, the technology and "benefits to". Perhaps
> this is actually two sections?
> 1. Benefits of LD technology
> 2. Benefits to the LLD community
>
> Presumably if we want to talk about benefits of the technology we should
> cover more than identifiers. There are benefits from defining ones data
> element set in RDF/OWL/SKOS, benefits to making it available on the Web,
> using "data" not text, etc. (I'm thinking of the 5 stars here.)
>
> Most of the benefits in 2.1 are general benefits of the technology and are
> not specific to libraries. That's fine, and I think it makes sense to talk
> about general benefits (with library examples) because not all readers of
> the report will be aware of them.
>
> The section on Benefits to organizations, I think, needs to be more
> specific. It should mention:
> - greater visibility for cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) on the web,
> which is where most info seekers are
> - facilitate re-use of library data in services to info seekers (automate
> citations, link from web resources to library resources)
> - CHIs will be able to make use of mainstream technologies to manage their
> data (unlike today where they need to develop tech specific to their data
> format)
> - expand discovery through linking
> - would create an open, global pool of shared data that can be used to
> describe resources
> - will probably be a first step toward an "in the cloud" approach to CHI
> systems technology, which we assume (?) will be more cost effective than
> individual systems in institutions
> - the "in the cloud" technology will make it possible for small institutions
> or individual projects to be visible and connected (such as many of our use
> cases)
>
> I'm sure there's more.... and some can be found in
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft_Benefits#Librarians.2C_Archivists.2C_Curators
>
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