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Re: Semantic Web pneumonia and the Linked Data flu (was: Can we lower the LD entry cost please (part 1)?)

From: Andreas Langegger <al@jku.at>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:48:29 +0100
Cc: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Message-Id: <48DE704A-06B8-44D1-87F0-C11E3B689B76@jku.at>
To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>

Hi Michael,

do you mean the uriburner in general? (because your link just gives me  
"No further information is available")

regards
Andy


On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Michael Hausenblas wrote:

>
> Andreas, Yves,
>
>> it would be nice to create some remote voiD buttler service for those
>> who don't want to spend too mutch time to create their own
>> descriptions.
>
> Isn't that what [1] gives you?
>
> Cheers,
>      Michael
>
> [1]
> http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://twitter.com/kidehen%23Data
> set
>
> -- 
> Dr. Michael Hausenblas
> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
> National University of Ireland, Lower Dangan,
> Galway, Ireland, Europe
> Tel. +353 91 495730
> http://sw-app.org/about.html
>
>
>> From: Andreas Langegger <al@jku.at>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:33:39 +0100
>> To: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
>> Subject: Re: Semantic Web pneumonia and the Linked Data flu (was:  
>> Can we lower
>> the   LD entry cost please (part 1)?)
>> Resent-From: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
>> Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:34:24 +0000
>>
>>
>> Hi Yves,
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Yves Raimond wrote:
>>> the beginning! If someone really wants a smallish search engine on  
>>> top
>>> of some dataset, wrapping a SPARQL query, or a call to the web  
>>> service
>>> that the dataset wraps should be enough. I don't see how the data
>>
>> +1 ...however, as long as standard SPARQL has no fulltext search and
>> aggregates, this might not always be possible.
>> If you want to fetch more detailed statistics (what I can do with
>> RDFStats), you really need count(*) at least if you want to do it
>> remotely!
>>
>>> publisher is required for achieving that aim. The same thing holds  
>>> for
>>> voiD and other technologies. Detailed statistics are available on  
>>> most
>>> dataset homepages, which (I think) provides enough data to write a
>>> good enough voiD description.
>>
>> it would be nice to create some remote voiD buttler service for those
>> who don't want to spend too mutch time to create their own
>> descriptions. THe void buttler will try to find out as many
>> information as possible remotely. Many things could actually be done
>> remotely (e.g. finding dc:subject/skos:subject terms), the remaining
>> information could be entered by the publisher in some form inputs.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To sum up, I am just increasingly concerned that we are building
>>> requirements on top of requirements for the sake of lowering a  "LD
>>> entry cost", whereas I have the feeling that this cost is really
>>> higher and higher... And all that doesn't make the data more linked
>>> :-)
>>
>> I still very much like the idea of LOD, I like the projects happening
>> and people being enthusiastic. But it is driven by people who like to
>> do this, who like to sit down and setup tools, etc. So, for the broad
>> to adopt, it must be as easy as possible and I think Yves raised an
>> important point.
>>
>> AndyL
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> y
>>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.langegger.at
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Andreas Langegger
>> Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing
>> Johannes Kepler University Linz
>> A-4040 Linz, Altenberger Straße 69
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>


http://www.langegger.at
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Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Andreas Langegger
Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing
Johannes Kepler University Linz
A-4040 Linz, Altenberger Straße 69
Received on Monday, 9 February 2009 13:49:12 GMT

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