- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:42:22 -0400
- To: Tom Heath <tom.heath@talis.com>
- CC: Chris Sizemore <Chris.Sizemore@bbc.co.uk>, public-lod@w3.org
Tom Heath wrote: > Hi Chris, > > 2008/9/23 Chris Sizemore <Chris.Sizemore@bbc.co.uk>: > >> does anyone else expect/hope that the "Linked Data" part of "dereferenceable >> Linked Data URIs " implies that these URIs will be linked up to, for >> instance, dbPedia, umbel, musicbrainz, etc etc? otherwise it wouldn't really >> be "linked data" per se, no? >> > > I hope that that's the case, although I don't know if it will turn out > that way. It may be a case of Calais confusing Linked Data with > linkable data. It is certainly my expectation (and that of the entire > LD community, I would argue) that "Linked Data" does actually include > those links, in case anyone was in any doubt ;) > > Tom. > > > Chris / Tom, I would decompose Linked Data, in this context, as follows: 1. URIs can be used to de-reference an RDF based resource description 2. Resource description includes de-rferencable URIs across Subject, Predicate, and Object (where applicable) in constituent triples Linkage to other Linked Data spaces (instances and classes) is a desired added bonus, but not the essential definition (imho) :-) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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