- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:20:58 +0100
- To: Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov>, Public DWBP WG <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
OK, I've amended the intro in line with your amendments (in my latest pull request). I took the liberty of including my new sentence about using the Open Web Platform as I think it's important to highlight the difference between using the Web as a data platform and simply as a means of passing blobs from point A to B that could just as easily be achieved by putting a USB stick in the post. On 28/04/2016 00:06, Annette Greiner wrote: > 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: >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> > -- Phil Archer W3C Data Activity Lead http://www.w3.org/2013/data/ http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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