Re: It is bad practice to consume Linked Data and not publish Linked Data

Is there a list of WebApps that actually consume Linked Data?

Does anyone know of any sites that actually use RDF as a backend?

Crossing fingers.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

> On 4/3/13 5:32 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
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>> Because it is. :-)
>>
>> Along with Kingsley's Crime #2 Against Linked Data, I think this is Crime
>> #1 Against Linked Data.
>> (It is the other side of what Kingsley would possibly call the "value
>> chain".)
>>
>> Someone spent a lot of effort creating and publishing the data you are
>> consuming.
>> And went to the effort of making it easy for you by publishing it as
>> Linked Data.
>> OK, if you are just doing a bit of republishing, maybe there isn't much
>> point, but if you have done anything of interest, and especially if you
>> have added any knowledge, let other people consume the fruits of your
>> labours as easily as the people you got the stuff from made it for you.
>> You clearly know about Linked Data, because you are consuming it, so it
>> shouldn't be that hard for you (OK, maybe we need to make it easier!).
>>
>> And never think that the stuff you were publishing isn't interesting for
>> someone else to consume!
>> If everyone thought like that we wouldn't have any Linked Data at all.
>>
>> Crime #3 Against Linked Data?
>> Using a string to identify a resource, because "nobody would want to make
>> a statement about that".
>>
>> Cheers
>> Hugh
>>
>>
>>
> Amen!!
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