Re: [linking-data] What else links to my subject of interest?

>From discussions on yesterday's call:

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BillRoberts sees this problem occur routinely. Statistical data (expressed
in RDF Data Cubes for example) often relates to geographic and
administrative areas. Many statistical datasets may use the same "spatial"
dataset. A common use case is to look for other statistics relating the
subject administrative area.

Beware that there is no limit to how many times resources may have linked
to (referred to) a given subject area ... there may be thousands of
'back-links'. How do we prioritise which ones to show/use?

(BillRoberts says that the situation is quite easy if you have all the
necessary information in your triple-store - or even if you can federate
your query across a number of known SPARQL end-points. However, what about
the "unknowns" - how do you discover what else is "out there" that refers
to your subject? How do you find third party content? This is a
discoverability concern ['''see related theme "enabling discovery"'''])

Is there a place for (domain-specific) catalogues where one can register
assertions about / references to a subject? For example [http://sameas.org
sameas.org] provides a place where owl:sameAs assertions can be registered
... perhaps, say, data.gov.uk could allow open data publishers to register
information about resources that are identified in URISets in the
data.gov.uk domain???

(Ed notes that "there be dragons" when you're trying to reconcile different
statistical data that assert that they are (apparently) talking about the
same location or area ... )

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 at 09:35 Jeremy Tandy <jeremy.tandy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Email thread for collecting discussion on the question: "What else links
> to my subject of interest?"
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> The related wiki entry for this questions is here [1]
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> For instructions about how to engage with this discussion, please see my
> previous email [2].
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> Many thanks. Jeremy
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> [1]:
> https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Linking_Data#What_else_links_to_my_subject_of_interest.3F
> <https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Linking_Data#How_can_I_describe_links_in_my_format_of_choice.3F>
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> [2]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2015Sep/0044.html
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