- From: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:35:09 +0100
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <ec8613a80906232335l477c1dedh7f88891f7963bbae@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote: > > There will be dozens or hundreds of other documents that use the same URI >> and the owners of those datasets would like attribution for their work. For >> example, I can make some unique assertions about you that no-one else has >> and I would like those attributed to me - using your URI would not provide >> that attribution. >> > > But your URIs conveys your point of view. The important thing here is that > their is a route back to your data space; the place from which your point of > view originates. > > If the pathways to the origins of data are obscured we are recreating > yesterday's economy (imho), one in which original creators of work as easily > dislocated by middlemen. An economy in which incentives for data publishing > are minimal for those who have invested time and money in quality data > curation and maintenance. > I'm not talking about obscuring any pathways. I'm talking about using existing URIs and adding more information. If I publish the following RDF as part of a set of reviews at http://example.com/reviews then how, in your scheme, am I supposed to get attribution? <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen> a foaf:weblog ; rev:text "Kingsley's blog, often containing pertinent lod postings" . Ian
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