- From: Alexandre Passant <alex@passant.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:32:27 +0000
- To: Georgi Kobilarov <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>
- Cc: Olaf Hartig <hartig@informatik.hu-berlin.de>, public-lod@w3.org
Hi, On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Georgi Kobilarov <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi Olaf, > > regarding your question about usage of Linked Data in enterprises: > >> publishers in the classical sense (e.g. BBC) > > we've submitted a paper to the ESWC 2009 semweb in-use track about the > use of Linked Data & DBpedia within the BBC [1]. > > Bottom line: The use of web-scale identifiers (in this particular case > DBpedia & Musicbrainz) does solve problems within the enterprise, and > provides real benefits for end-users. > > Interested to hear other's opinions... On a similar note you can read: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/EDF/ Internally reusing some data from the LOD cloud (e.g. to build geolocation mash-up.) In that case, I strongly believe that the openess and availability of Linked Data is the key feature Alex. > > Cheers, > Georgi > > > [1] > http://www.georgikobilarov.com/publications/2009/eswc2009-submission-bbc > -dbpedia.pdf > > -- > Georgi Kobilarov > Freie Universität Berlin > www.georgikobilarov.com > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On >> Behalf Of Olaf Hartig >> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:26 AM >> To: public-lod@w3.org >> Subject: Re: studies about LD visibility >> >> >> Hello, >> >> On Thursday 22 January 2009 02:58:17 Semantics-ProjectParadigm wrote: >> > Can you be more specific on "communities" and "benefits"? >> >> I admit "communities" is not the proper word. I mean different groups >> of >> people that might benefit from using linked data. Such groups are: >> developers >> of applications that process or mash data published on the Web, >> publishers in >> the classical sense (e.g. BBC, NYT), Web 2.0 publishers (e.g. > bloggers, >> Flickr users), businesses (e.g. Amazon), etc. >> >> What I'm looking for are studies that consider one or more of these >> groups and >> that deal with questions such as: What percentage of people in these >> groups >> knows about linked data? Are people in these groups aware of the >> potential >> benefit linked data may provide? >> >> The potential benefits are varying depending on the group. Mash-up >> developers, >> for instance, can combine data from different sources more easily. >> Furthermore, they don't have to access a different proprietary API for >> each >> data source. >> >> Hope this clarifies my question. >> >> Greetings, >> Olaf >> >> > [...] >> > --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Olaf Hartig wrote: >> > [...] >> > Does someone know a study that investigates whether people from >> different >> > communities know about linked data and are aware of the benefits? >> > >> > Greetings, >> > Olaf > >
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