- From: Georgi Kobilarov <gkob@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:32:05 +0200
- To: "Chris Sizemore" <Chris.Sizemore@bbc.co.uk>, "Richard Cyganiak" <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: <public-lod@w3.org>, "Michael Smethurst" <Michael.Smethurst@bbc.co.uk>, "Silver Oliver" <Silver.Oliver@bbc.co.uk>, <pepper@ontopia.net>
Chris, > when you say "I think this is true as long as you stay within a single > organization." -- you are on to something there, though at the BBC we > are beginning to use reference data lists/controlled vocabularies from > *outside* the BBC to annotate content inside... though you might prefer > we be using Dbpedia URIs, it's easier for our editors to tag our > content > using Wikipedia URLs, because they can confirm and choose using the > Wikipedia website itself -- and if needed we can convert to dbpedia > when > we publish LOD externally... That's a very important distinction: user workflow and data representation! We need to make the user workflow as easy as possible. Nobody will ever write RDF. If users want to cut&paste Wikipedia URIs to annotate content: great, do it. These URIs can easily be converted into DBpedia URIs internally, and we get correct RDF data. And everybody's happy :) Georgi -- Georgi Kobilarov Freie Universität Berlin www.georgikobilarov.com
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