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Re: Linked Data in blog post from TimBL about Semantic Web in the news

From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:50:02 -0400
Message-ID: <47ECDB6A.4060505@openlinksw.com>
CC: public-lod@w3.org

Tom Heath wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> In case your feedreader hasn't flagged this for you yet, it's an
> interesting blog post from TimBL that, among other things, has some nice
> words to say about Linking Open Data:
>
> http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/232
>
> It also does a good job of encouraging people to relax about finding
> "the Semantic Web killer app"; at least that's what I took from it.
> Bravo.
>
> Tom.
>
>   
Tom,

One of the key messages in this post was the importance of "Open Data 
Access" when labeling offerings as "Semantic Web" oriented. Multiple 
views of the same source data is mandatory, in a nutshell.

As for the quest for the killer application, I remain of the opinion 
that "Linked Data" via de-referencable URIs is the killer application of 
the Semantic Web vision. Just as "Linked Documents" via de-referencable 
URLs is the killer application of the Document Web.

Most importantly, Tim reminded everyone that the Document Web and the 
Semantic Web are mutually inclusive aspects of a single World Wide Web :-)

-- 


Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	      Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO 
OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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