- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:17:20 -0400
- To: Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Ian Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Kingsley Idehen > <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto: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 > <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>> a foaf:weblog ; > rev:text "Kingsley's blog, often containing pertinent lod postings" . > > > Ian > Ian, Via the following statements in your own data space (assuming the review doesn't already include metadata that exposes author or creator URIs): <http://example.com/reviews> a foaf:Document; foaf:primarytopic <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>> ; dc:creator <#you>. .. .. Also note, there is implicit data provider attribution to whoever owns or runs <http://example.com/reviews>, assuming this is an HTTP URI that's implicitly bound to its metadata (as per Linked Data meme). -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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