Re: New Calais proxy could grow Linked Data Cloud

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) :-)

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