Re: Re-write of Benefits

"Makes me wonder if maybe the benefits section needs a section on benefits for businesses..." -- an interesting thought! 

Given our dependence on vendors, and the interrelation with other commercial entities, I think it's a good idea!

-Jodi

On 2 Jun 2011, at 06:46, Ed Summers wrote:

> Thanks Karen. By the way I really liked your recent blog post All the
> ___ in the World [1]. I think the service orientation you described is
> essential for the Benefits to Researchers, Students and Patrons
> section [2].
> 
> Mendeley and Zotero are good examples of such services. In my opinion
> getting library, museum and archives data out as linked and open data
> will help serve as a foundation for these sorts of services. If the
> data is closed off, and not available on the web in a coherent way it
> will raise the barrier to entry for creating these services.
> 
> Makes me wonder if maybe the benefits section needs a section on
> benefits for businesses...
> 
> //Ed
> 
> [1] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2011/05/all-in-world.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Benefits#Benefits_to_Researchers.2C_Students_and_Patrons
> 
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:
>> I did some rewriting of the Benefits page [1], as I agreed at the last
>> meeting. What is there now is an attempt to remove references to URIs
>> without changing the meaning of the text. I could take it further, but I
>> think that would be imposing *my* view of the benefits on that section,
>> rather than staying somewhat faithful to what the group wrote.
>> 
>> Then again, if I *did* mess with the meaning, feel free to "mess" it back.
>> 
>> kc
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Benefits
>> 
>> --
>> Karen Coyle
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>

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