Re: For review: Benefits, Part III - Benefits to Organizations

On 16 Jun 2011, at 13:43, Karen Coyle wrote:

> Quoting Jodi Schneider <jodi.schneider@deri.org>:
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>> On 15 Jun 2011, at 20:12, Karen Coyle wrote:
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>>> Linked Data may be a first step toward an "in the cloud" approach to managing cultural information -- one which will be more cost-effective than individual systems in institutions. This approach will make it possible for small institutions or individual projects to be visible and connected, with reduced infrastructure costs.
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>> Do we mean, "in the cloud", as in "cloud computing"? I find this section unclear.
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> I suspect that "in the cloud" has become a synonym for "on the web."

Those are extremely different to me. If we mean, "on the web", please can we say that? 

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>> In particular, are we advocating that individual organizations hold their own metadata and aggregate it (i.e. SEO, etc)? Or that individual organizations publish through larger groups?
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> I don't think we're advocating anything that specific. However the data gets into LOD space is fine. I think there will be a number of different functioning models for how that happens.

"in the cloud" strongly suggests a preference to the latter, to me.

-Jodi

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>> -Jodi
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