Introduction text

Another issue raised by you, Annette, is that the first paragraph 
doesn't indicate any connection with the Web. I think I may be missing 
your underlying point but let me try and move forward a little. You say 
that the opening paragraph is not about the Web as such.

Current text:

The Best Practices described below have been developed to encourage and 
enable the continued expansion of the Web as a medium for the exchange 
of data. The growth of open data by governments across the world 
[OKFN-INDEX], the increasing publication of research data encouraged by 
organizations like the Research Data Alliance [RDA], the harvesting and 
analysis of social media, crowd-sourcing of information, the provision 
of important cultural heritage collections such as at the Bibliothèque 
nationale de France [BNF] and the sustained growth in the Linked Open 
Data Cloud [LODC], provide some examples of this growth in the use of 
Web for publishing data.


How about adding:

However, this growth is not consistent in style and in many cases does 
not make use of the full potential of the Open Web Platform's ability to 
link one fact to another, to discover related resources and to create 
interactive visualizations.


Does that help?

Phil.





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Phil Archer
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Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 17:40:52 UTC