Re: Topic "data linking" is missing the the GLD best practices doc

Thanks Olaf, very helpful and concise feedback.  Thank you very much.  

I'm one of the editors & am about to resume edits on the document & will ensure your feedback is addressed.  I'll follow up directly for you to review when that is done to ensure we've been sufficiently comprehensive.

Cheers,

Bernadette Hyland, co-chair 
W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
Charter: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/

On Nov 8, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Olaf Hartig wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I just skimmed the editor's draft for "Best Practices for Publishing Linked 
> Data" at https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/bp/index.html .
> 
> Thanks for your efforts on putting together such a document!
> 
> However, a topic that seems to be missing (and that I think is important for 
> such a document), is how to actually link data.
> 
> 1) I don't find any explanation of what it is that makes data "linked". There 
> is no proper introduction of what a link is in the given context.  Actually, 
> the noun "link" (or "data link") doesn't appear a single time in the whole 
> document.
> 
> 2) The document should contain a section on how to create data links (within 
> an organization's dataset and, more importantly, to data from other sources).
> 
> 
> BTW, originally, I sent this mail to public-gld-wg@w3.org which is the address 
> given in the "Status of This Document" section. Since, I'm not in the group, 
> the mail ended up in the moderator's mailbox. I propose to change the address 
> for public comments given in the document to public-gld-comments@w3.org
> 
> 
> Best,
> Olaf
> 
>