- From: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:01:46 +0200
- To: public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
- Cc: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com>, Denny Vrandecic <denny.vrandecic@kit.edu>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Enrico Motta <e.motta@open.ac.uk>, Thomas Steiner <tsteiner@google.com>, Anja Jentzsch <anja@anjeve.de>, semanticweb <semanticweb@yahoogroups.com>, Giovanni Tummarello <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>, Mathieu d'Aquin <m.daquin@open.ac.uk>
> The Web of documents is an open system built on people agreeing on > standards > and best practices. > Open system means in this context that everybody can publish content > and > that there are no restrictions on the quality of the content. > This is in my opinion one of the central facts that made the Web > successful. > > +10000000000 > > > The same is true for the Web of Data. There obviously cannot be any > restrictions on what people can/should publish (including, different > opinions on a topic, but also including pure SPAM). As on the > classic Web, > it is a job of the information/data consumer to figure out which > data it > wants to believe and use (definition of information quality = > usefulness of > information, which is a subjective thing). > +10000000000 The fact that there is obviously a lot of low quality data on the current Web should not encourage us to publish masses of low-quality data and then celebrate ourselves for having achieved a lot. The current Web tolerates buggy markup, broken links, and questionable content of all types. But I hope everybody agrees that the Web is successful because of this tolerance, not because of the buggy content itself. Quite to the contrary, the Web has been broadly adopted because of the lots of commonly agreed high-quality contents. If you continue to live the linked data landfill style it will fall back on you, reputation-wise, funding-wise, and career-wise. Some rules hold in ecosystems of all kinds and sizes. Best Martin
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