- From: Steven Adler <adler1@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:27:15 -0400
- To: Laufer <laufer@globo.com>
- Cc: Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <OF1DB70077.19543B88-ON85257D33.006AB6B5-85257D33.006ADDC4@us.ibm.com>
hi Laufer, I enjoy this discussion. It is thought provoking and interesting and hope we can translate these ideas into metadata vocabulary that would empower the industry to leverage them. Best Regards, Steve Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again" From: Laufer <laufer@globo.com> To: Steven Adler/Somers/IBM@IBMUS Cc: Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org> Date: 08/10/2014 09:19 PM Subject: Re: Data is an asset - Data is a product Hi Steve, I agree with you that the value of data could depend on its use. But even data that is sold need a manner to define its price. What I was thinking is that products, in general, have a lot of metadata that are similar to those we are discussing. They define the contract that could include info about the product, policies about return, etc. If it is a software, will include licenses. Provenance could be related to the company that sells the product, or to the companies that provide components to one device, or technologies used in a device. And we are not discussing the value of data in social networks, which relates to a huge amount. For the group, I think that is interesting to think that what is being published is a product. And that we will have consumers wanting this product. Having best practices to publish these products could make it easy to use them, and would, probably, enhance their value. It is important to develop ways of tracking the use. Maybe the guys that already sell data have ways of measuring data usage as a a way of defining prices. Thank you for your article. Best Regards, Laufer 2014-08-10 20:59 GMT-03:00 Steven Adler <adler1@us.ibm.com>: Hi Laufer, Thanks. I was hoping to stimulate a discussion because I think the idea "Data is an asset" has become such a soundbite that few people even question its meaning or stop to consider if its correct. I think it is important to challenge our assumptions about how the world works and I appreciate that you are now challenging my simile (that data valuation is like labor). Data is often packaged into products and examples of this include software, music files, videos, and media subscriptions. Researchers often charge for reports. In each of these cases, there is a market of consumers to perform price discovery and establish monetary prices. Its the data that we all use every day in our companies that doesn't have a market for price discovery, and without a market its hard to define a value. What do you think about this? Best Regards, Steve Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again" From: Laufer <laufer@globo.com> To: Steven Adler/Somers/IBM@IBMUS, Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org> Date: 08/09/2014 11:08 AM Subject: Data is an asset - Data is a product Hi, Steve, Your article “The Value of Data is Based on its Usefulness” is very interesting: “Data is an asset”. These days I was thinking in another way of looking at data: “Data is a product”. I was thinking that if we look at data as a product, we should define the contract between those who “sell” and those who “buy”. In this contract we have to put all data (metadata) that could clarify all the aspects of the product. I'm not saying that the products must be charged. But they could be. Just thinking. Best Regards, Laufer -- . . . .. . . . . . .. . .. . -- . . . .. . . . . . .. . .. .
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