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

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

>  On 4/3/13 6:06 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
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> Is there a list of WebApps that actually consume Linked Data?
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> Does anyone know of any sites that actually use RDF as a backend?
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> Crossing fingers.
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> There's been a whole thread in the last month to which most responses have
> included URLs to Linked Data consumer apps [1] . I would start there :-)
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> Link: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2013Mar/0152.html .
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These are all about visualization. I'm not sure if that's a real problem
with a concrete Web App. Linked Data visualization is only a problem if you
first believe Linked Data is the solution to your problem. I'm looking for
apps where Linked Data provides a concrete benefit over, say, just using
SQL or attribute-value pairs on the backend.

It would be great if a list of these Linked Data (AJAR I remember TimBL
saying) were kept on a wiki page somewhere!

> Kingsley
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> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:
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>>  On 4/3/13 5:32 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
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>>> Because it is. :-)
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>>> 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".)
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>>> 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!).
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>>> 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".
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>>> Cheers
>>> Hugh
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>>  Amen!!
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