Re: Facebok a leader of _federated_ social networking?

On 7/3/13 3:11 AM, Jonas Smedegaard 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   - Jonas
>

A Web of Data accessible by the World Wide Web is a system facilitated 
by Open Standards.

You can make structured data web-like via the use of standards for 
identifiers (URIs) and data models (EAV, RDF etc..). You can even use 
standards (e.g., RDF) to incorporate machine- and human-comprehensible 
logic into the web-like structured data.

Standards enable interoperability across platforms. Unix is simply a 
recent (pre. Web) example of how standards deliver interoperability.

The W3C note shouldn't distract or confuse you. Simply test it against 
your own understanding, research, and experience.

-- 

Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	
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