RE : [Moderator Action] [METADATA] Webbiness of publishing metadata (ISSUE-1)

A classical egg and chicken question?
- Developers don't find linked data in ebooks/web pages, so why try?
- Publishers see no usage, so why put linked data in?
IMO, publishers have the start as they have the knowledge about the data and the process to publish.
Luc

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De : Robert Sanderson [azaroth42@gmail.com]
Date d'envoi : jeudi 18 septembre 2014 01:54
À : Ivan Herman
Cc : W3C Public Digital Publishing IG Mailing List
Objet : Re: [Moderator Action] [METADATA] Webbiness of publishing metadata (ISSUE-1)

My thoughts on this issue...

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org<mailto:ivan@w3.org>> wrote:
From: fabrizio quinta <fabrizio.venerandi@quintadicopertina.com<mailto:fabrizio.venerandi@quintadicopertina.com>>
On 15/09/2014 11:17, Graham Bell wrote:
I think it would be fair to say that the use of linked data and URIs as identifiers is "definitely not a 'solved issue' among publishers" -- and to a large extent is not an issue that most publishers are even aware of.
As digital publisher I can ask: why I have to spend money to create metadata than often are not used by anyone?
That seems like a failure in the process somewhere.  Either the metadata itself is not semantically useful enough to be used, it's not in a format or syntax that's easy to use, it's not easily discoverable or it's not easily accessible.

If all of those are /not/ the case (it's useful, it's easy to develop with, it's easily found and retrieved) then there's definitely an underlying issue to be solved.

Rob

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Rob Sanderson
Technology Collaboration Facilitator
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford, CA 94305

Received on Thursday, 18 September 2014 06:55:54 UTC