On 10/21/10 8:45 AM, Michael Hausenblas wrote: > (cutting down lists as cross-posting is against W3C list policy) > > I'm in general with Chris. Of course RDFa is/can be used to do Linked Data. > But rather than wasting our time in ranting how bad the world is, how about > just making it a better place? > > 1. Clearly, we need to motivate why interlinking is beneficial or at least > offer 3rd party services that do the job for the publishers (if they don't > see the benefit or have other priorities). > > 2. Again, rather than discussing endlessly about what is fair and what is > not and who should be there and who not and so on ... hey, it's the Web. An > open, free ecosystem where you can just put up your own visualisation, > diagram, stats, etc. - tthe community will then decide how valuable and > useful it is. > > /me back to work now; trying to help solve the issues rather than talking > about it in the first place ;) > > Correcting one factual error in Gio's post, though: > >> So danny ayers has fun linking to dbpedia so he is in there with his >> joke dataset, but you cant credibly bring that argument to large >> retailers so they're left out? > Denny Vrandecic. > > Cheers, > Michael > Michael, Bottom line, the community needs to imbibe the Nike motto: Just Do It! Burning cycles on conversations that are basically indirect-speak for: "could you also do this for me, in your own time etc..", gets us nowhere. Every contribution matters, but we can't indirectly put the burden on a few community members, repeatedly. Everyone: Just Do It! The Web of Linked Data is about the freedom to say anything, about anything, whenever, and from wherever etc.. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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