- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:27:10 +0100
- To: public-lod@w3.org
On 7/13/11 12:00 PM, Leigh Dodds wrote: > Hi, > > On 12 July 2011 18:45, Pablo Mendes<pablomendes@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear fellow Linked Open Data publishers and consumers, >> We are in the process of regenerating the next LOD cloud diagram and >> associated statistics [1]. >> ... > This email prompted a discussion about how to the data collection or > diagram could be improved or updated. As CKAN is an open platform and > anyone can add additional tags to datasets, why doesn't everyone who > is interested in seeing a particular improvement or alternate view of > the data just go ahead and do it? There's no need to require all this > to be done by one team on a fixed schedule. > > Some light co-ordination between people doing similar analyses would > be worthwhile, but it wouldn't be hard to, e.g. tag datasets based on > whether their Linked Data or SPARQL endpoint is available regularly, > whether they're currently maintained, or (my current bug bear) whether > the data dumps they publish parse with more than one tool chain. > > It'd be nice to see many different aspects of the cloud being explored. > > Cheers, > > L. > +1 There should be multiple clouds by now. Linked Data isn't monolithic or centralized. I encourage others to make other clouds. Especially a dynamic cloud that reflects the state of play in close to real-time :-) -- 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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