- From: Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:52:32 +0400
- To: Marc Wick <marc@geonames.org>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Hi Marc, > I am not aware of any google linked data services, but you can be sure > the google lawyers will not allow any usage of the data set you > describe. They process rich snippets[1] and display them in the search results. This includes RDFa. > Your developer can consider himself lucky if he is only fired > and not facing more serious problems after it is discovered that he puts > unauthorized corporate data on a public web server. Not sure which "unauthorized corporate data" you are referring to. I had the following scenario in mind: Acme Inc. have a nice HTML product listing, and task their developers with adding GoodRelations RDFa to that listing, to make it machine-readable. All they do is insert a bunch of attributes into the pages. The "publicity level" of data remains the same, the format of delivery changes. > The license is important for the consumer of the data, so that their > corporate lawyers will allow to use the data. Publishing and consuming data cannot be viewed separately. If data is published, it's for someone else to grab it and do useful things with it. If nobody can do any useful things with data unless it has an explicit license attached to it, then there is no point in publishing data without such a license, thus licensing becomes a "must have". [1] http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=99170 -- Vasiliy Faronov
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