Re: Introduction text

Hi Phil,
Hm, I've written about this in several places, so I'm wondering where 
all my attempts at clarifying are going. The issue is the examples in 
the sentence beginning "The growth of open data..."

We need to use examples that are examples of the thing we are talking 
about, which is the expansion of the Web as a medium for the exchange of 
data. These examples don't represent use of the web per se, though they 
are things that could drive more usage of the web, if people decided to 
do that. The worst offender in this regard is "the provision of 
important cultural heritage collections". Important cultural heritage 
collections have been around for millennia. That only works as an 
example if it refers to putting those collections on the web.

We could change to "The growth in online sharing of open data by 
governments..., the increasing online publication of research data..., 
the harvesting and publishing online of social media data..., the 
increasing presence on the web of cultural heritage collections...
-Annette

On 4/27/16 10:40 AM, Phil Archer wrote:
> 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:
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> 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.
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>
> Does that help?
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> Phil.
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-- 
Annette Greiner
NERSC Data and Analytics Services
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 23:07:23 UTC