- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:35:14 -0500
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Sergio Fernández <sergio.fernandez@fundacionctic.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
On 2/2/09 7:44 PM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > > I see minting a URI as a completely casual activity, not greater in > responsibility than, say, publishing a message on Twitter or posting a > comment on a YouTube video. The argument that “introducing an > identifier into the world bestows great responsibility upon you” is > harmful in my eyes, and actually borders on FUD. Is the intent to keep > the right to mint URIs in the hand of some Select Few Who Know How To > Do It Properly? I hope not. I'd rather spread a message that > encourages people to put linkable data out there, rather than warning > them about the 53 things that they should worry about each time they > touch RDF. Dan, The responsibility of a Data Source Name Minter/Owner is no greater than that of any URL creator or minter (imho). We give things Identifiers when we find them useful; typically to ourselves first, and then to others when published in some shared space (e.g. Web). I think the Web as a "Structured Data Space" can survive absolutely fine with URI proliferation just as it has survived URL proliferation :-) As for your valid concerns I think (or hope) many of these will end up in the Linked Data Product / Service USP box. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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