Re: The Battle for Linked Data

On 3/26/12 2:16 PM, Dan Brickley wrote:
> I think this can be defused:
>
> "'Linked Data' is the use of the Web standards to share documents that
> encode structured data, typically but not necessarily using a graph
> data model."

TimBL's  Linked Data meme isn't about "sharing," solely. What about 
"whole data representation" and the URI de-reference requirements?
Ditto unambiguous URI based naming etc..

I guess the problem is that "Linked Data" is quite generic when taken 
literally and like wise in the broader computer science realm discourse. 
Thus, we have to deal with the question of what moniker best applies to 
the title of TimBL's Linked Data meme [1] and the best practices that it 
espouses.  Maybe we'll end up referring to fine-grained structured data 
that adheres to said meme as *Hyperdata*. At the end of the day, that's 
a cleaner moniker anyway :-)


Links:

1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html - original Linked Data 
meme .
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperdata -- Wikipedia entry exists (it 
needs some cleaning up though).

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