Re: There's No Money in Linked Data

You aptly name the report nomoneylod.**pdf you should do so in the title of
the report and in this post as well.

There certainly is money in linked data.

-Marco



On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Pascal Hitzler
<pascal.hitzler@wright.edu>wrote:

> We just finished a piece indicating serious legal issues regarding the
> commercialization of Linked Data - this may be of general interest, hence
> the post. We hope to stimulate discussions on this issue (hence the
> provokative title).
>
> Available from
> http://knoesis.wright.edu/**faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.**pdf<http://knoesis.wright.edu/faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.pdf>
>
> Abstract.
> Linked Data (LD) has been an active research area for more than 6 years
> and many aspects about publishing, retrieving, linking, and cleaning Linked
> Data have been investigated. There seems to be a broad and general
> agreement that in principle LD datasets can be very useful for solving a
> wide variety of problems ranging from practical industrial analytics to
> highly specific research problems. Having these notions in mind, we started
> exploring the use of notable LD datasets such as DBpedia, Freebase,
> Geonames and others for a commercial application. However, it turns out
> that using these datasets in realistic settings is not always easy.
> Surprisingly, in many cases the underlying issues are not technical but
> legal barriers erected by the LD data publishers. In this paper we argue
> that these barriers are often not justified, detrimental to both data
> publishers and users, and are often built without much consideration of
> their consequences.
>
> Authors:
> Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Chitra Venkatramani
>
> --
> Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler
> Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
> pascal@pascal-hitzler.de   http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/
> Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.**org<http://www.semantic-web-book.org>
> Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-**journal.net<http://www.semantic-web-journal.net>
>
>
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