Review of Draft recommendation page

I have an action to review the draft recommendations page:

 

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft_recommendations_page

 

Here are some section-by-section thoughts. In several cases the thought
was eventually addressed, so it's probably safe to ignore those. In
general, I think the section is excellent!


Recommendations (1st paragraph)


I'll try to avoid word-smithing, but I would suggest changing "libraries
can take on a leadership role around traditional library values of..."
to "libraries can leverage their traditional values of...".


Identify sets of data as possible candidates for early exposure as LD


One guideline here may be encourage developers to focus on resources
that are likely to be found in Linked Data cloud hubs. The mental block
that needs to be overcome is knowing the hubs probably don't contain
every instance needed, but developers shouldn't let that be a
show-stopper. [I see this is mentioned in the section named "Create
explicit links from ...]


For each set of data, determine the ROI...


In terms of ROI, replacing MARC bibliographic format will presumably be
more hateful than other data formats. This is implied in various places,
but this section might be less discouraging in general if the point was
acknowledged.


Increase library participation in Semantic Web standardization


This section mentions extending standards, presumably in the sense of
library community extensions. One of the nice things about OWL, though,
is that domain-specific terms can also be mapped to other terms without
community involvement. I think this is a useful point because many
developers still seem to believe that existing vocabularies are
all-or-nothing. [I see this is mentioned in the "Directly use, or map
to,..." section.]


Develop best practices and design patterns for LLD


Assuming heterogeneity is inevitable, an OWL reasoner could be used in
combination with OWL mappings to smooth out dataset mashups.


Commit to best-practice policies for managing and preserving RDF
vocabularies


I'm not sure what this bullet means:

*         Extensibility of use of the namespace by smaller organizations

 

Jeff

 

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