Re: How is "Linked Open Data" different from "Linked Data"?

Quoting Melvin Carvalho (2013-07-03 09:19:12)
On 3 July 2013 09:11, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
>> Quoting Kingsley Idehen (2013-07-03 01:35:21)
>>> In the W3C world clearly Linked Open Data (LOD) is now pitched as 
>>> Public Linked Data. But that kind of positioning makes no sense and 
>>> is utterly indefensible.
>>>
>>> "Open systems were those that would meet agreed specifications or 
>>> standards. This resulted in the formation of X/Open Company Ltd 
>>> whose remit was, and today in the guise of The Open Group remains, 
>>> to define a comprehensive open systems environment. Open systems, 
>>> they declared, would save on costs, attract a wider portfolio of 
>>> applications and competition on equal terms. X/Open chose the UNIX 
>>> system as the platform for the basis of open systems."
>>>
>>> -- excerpt from Unix History [1] (I worked as a Unix consultant at 
>>> Unisys in the late 80's prior to founding OpenLink Software).
>>
>> Thanks for explaining how not even "Linked Open Data" (emphasized by 
>> capital letters and quotes as being a concept rather than three words 
>> with individual meaning) is open for interpretation.

Whoops - a bogus "not" accidentally sneaked into my sentence above.


>> In this thread, when explaining what _I_ got confused about, I was in 
>> fact talking about a different concept than "Open systems".
>>
>> I shall consider to instead use linked-open-data-as-defined-by-W3C in 
>> the future, when myself talking about what I mean.
>>
>
> Linked (Open) Data is not defined normatively anywhere by the W3C.

Ah, good point.

What I mean is linked-open-data-as-per-W3C-draft-definition.

Is that still ambiguous?  Has W3C ever made any other draft definition 
than <http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#linked-open-data> for "Linked 
Open Data"?  Is perhaps "Open" a protected word similar to "Unix"?


 - Jonas

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