Maintaining Activity: Semantic Web Activity
List Purpose: The public-lod@w3.org mailing list provides a discussion forum for members of the Linking Open Data project and the broader Linked Data community. The Linking Open Data project is a grassroots community effort founded in February 2007 as a W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group Community Project. The aim of the project is to identify datasets that are available under open licenses, re-publish these in RDF on the Web and interlink them with each other.
The Linking Open Data project wiki pages provide additional background information about the project. The project's mailing list was hosted by the MIT SIMILE project until Spring 2008; MIT also maintains an archive of the list until that point.