- From: John Domingue <j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:55:20 +0200
- To: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Cc: Michael Smethurst <michael.smethurst@bbc.co.uk>, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>, Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>, SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>, Georgi Kobilarov <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>
Sören, before you get too depressed with all this negativity ..... I'd just like to say that I for one think that this is a *great* idea and a very good use of EU project resources. Getting out there and helping to kick start more institutions to LoD is definitely the way to go with your project. Good Luck! and please keep me posted on results cheers John On 7 Oct 2010, at 16:45, Georgi Kobilarov wrote: > Hi Michael, > >>>>> Insofar PUBLINK rather clears the way for commercial linked data >>>>> service providers. >> >> By doing what? Which bits does publink do and which bits are left >> to the >> commercial sector? >> >> From the lines above it aims to help "people in organizations who >> want to >> persuade their decision makers" or persuade decision makers in >> general > with >> demos >> >> Personally I think if that's the intention it's good. I know where >> to find > help >> with data modelling, hosting, data consolidation, existing >> ontologies, > content >> negotiation etc etc. But I don't know where to go for help >> translating >> developer understanding to business understanding >> > > The intention is good, I agree, but centralizing all of the work > into just > one consortium isn't. One research consortium as the new linked data > monopolist, that's not the message to send out into the world. > > Plus, in my opinion there is little of a business model in > publishing data > in itself. There can only be a business model in having other people > use > data, for which publishing is one necessity of course. > > So the showcases for the business will be on the data consumption > side, and > these demos should be developed by people who know how to build > demos and > showcases. "Persuading" a few more data publishers won't change the > landscape, so I'd much rather see that money go into e.g. developer/ > design > competitions like the Sunlight Foundation is doing in the US. > > Cheers, > Georgi > > > > -- _________________________________________ Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK phone: 0044 1908 653800, fax: 0044 1908 653169 email: j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk web: kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/ President, STI International Amerlingstrasse 19/35, Austria - 1060 Vienna phone: 0043 1 23 64 002 - 16, fax: 0043 1 23 64 002-99 email: john.domingue@sti2.org web: www.sti2.org -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
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