On 9/5/10 6:30 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kingsley Idehen<kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >> All, >> >> See: http://www.ckan.net/group/lod >> >> Why: Linking Open Data? >> >> It should be: Linked Open Data . Or just: Linked Data (bearing in all the data sets might not be open). > The name and description goes back the SWEO interest group, which was > called that. If you take the "open" out of it (which I would oppose) > then I don't think you should reference the interest group, since > their interest was in "open". > > http://esw.w3.org/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData > > -Alan > > Alan, It's the "Linking" rather than "Linked" aspect I am concerned about. LOD should stand for: Linked Open Data, not Linking Open Data. Like most technical projects, "Linking Open Data" is a misnomer :-) -- 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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