Re: Broken Links in LOD Data Sets

Kingsley,

Grounding in 404 and 30x makes sense to me. However I am still in the  
conception phase ;)

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On 12 Feb 2009, at 14:02, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>  
wrote:

> Michael Hausenblas wrote:
> > Bernhard, All,
> >
> > So, another take on how to deal with broken links: couple of days  
> ago I
> > reported two broken links in a TAG finding [1] which was (quickly  
> and
> > pragmatically, bravo, TG!) addressed [2], recently.
> >
> > Let's abstract this away and apply to data rather than documents.  
> The
> > mechanism could work as follows:
> >
> > 1. A *human* (e.g. Through a built-in feature in a Web of Data  
> browser such
> > as Tabulator) encounters a broken link an reports it to the  
> respective
> > dataset publisher (the authoritative one who 'owns' it)
> >
> > OR
> >
> > 1. A machine encounters a broken link (should it then directly  
> ping the
> > dataset publisher or first 'ask' its master for permission?)
> >
> > 2. The dataset publisher acknowledges the broken link and creates  
> according
> > triples as done in the case for documents (cf. [2])
> >
> > In case anyone wants to pick that up, I'm happy to contribute. The  
> name?
> > Well, a straw-man proposal could be called *re*pairing *vi*ntage  
> link
> > *val*ues (REVIVAL) - anyone? :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >       Michael
> >
> > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Jan/0118.html
> > [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Feb/0068.html
> >
> >
> Micheal,
>
> If the publisher is truly dog-fooding and they know what data objects
> they are publishing, condition 404 should be the trigger for a self
> directed query to determine:
>
> 1. what's happened to the entity URI
> 2. lookup similar entities
> 3. then self fix if possible (e.g. a 302)
>
> Basically, Linked Data publishers should make 404s another Linked Data
> prowess exploitation point  :-)
>
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kingsley Idehen       Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
> President & CEO
> OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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