Re: Linked Data Book in Early Access Release

On 12/5/12 9:15 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 5 December 2012 14:56, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com 
> <mailto:david@3roundstones.com>> wrote:
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>     On Dec 5, 2012, at 08:46, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com
>     <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
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>     > On 12/5/12 7:55 AM, David Wood wrote:
>     >> On Dec 5, 2012, at 06:34, Chris Beer<chris@codex.net.au
>     <mailto:chris@codex.net.au>>  wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> ><snip>
>     >>> >
>     >>>>> >>>http://www.manning.com/dwood/  itself doesn't seam to
>     have any Linked Data
>     >>>>> >>>to consume;)
>     >>> >
>     >>> >Makes sense to me - if you know enough to look for LD
>     resources at the
>     >>> >manning.com/dwood/ <http://manning.com/dwood/> URI, you've
>     just self evaluated that you probably don't
>     >>> >need the book! :P
>     >> I agree - and have been speaking with Manning about this.
>      Unfortunately, I haven't made any progress yet.  I'll keep trying!
>     >>
>     >> Thanks for the mail.  Perhaps I can use it as proof to Manning
>     that people do want LD on their site.
>     >>
>     >> Regards,
>     >> Dave
>     >>
>     >>
>     > Dave,
>     >
>     > They have to understand that its sorta contradictory if they
>     need to be convinced of this matter :-)
>
>     Oh, I see your point and have made it myself.  Unfortunately,
>     economics seems to be dictating otherwise to them for right or wrong.
>
>     The only productive suggestion that has been made to me is to put
>     up a parallel site for the book that includes LD.  Michael
>     Hausenblas has offered the domain linkeddatadeveloper.com
>     <http://linkeddatadeveloper.com>, which was his original site for
>     the book but has fallen into disuse.  Of course, I would need to
>     be willing to pay for the site and take the time to operate it.
>
>     Would the community find that a useful thing to do?  I am willing
>     to go to the effort if I receive a good number of positive responses.
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>
> In (I think the preface) to "Weaving the Web", Tim wrote something 
> like, "The next one will be online, I promise"
>
> The dream of linked data has always been to be a collaborative space 
> to both read and write to.
>
> If it were feasible to dogfood such an endeavour, I think the dream of 
> linked data could be close to reality.
>
> I wonder if we're close enough yet for this to be practical?
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Dave
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>
>
Melvin,

You can deploy Linked Data with ease. The following distractions no 
longer apply:

1. domain name ownership
2. dns server access and privileges
3. http server access and privileges
4. URIs used to denote entities.

I wrote a few DIY-style of Linked Data deployment guides to demonstrate 
the claims I make above. There are no reasons for us to not dog-food 
Linked Data, instinctively circa. 2012. Once folks get comfortable with 
the DIY deployment approach they'll be much better placed to appreciate 
the productivity oriented virtues of Linked Data tools.

Links:

1. http://bit.ly/MYLsMu -- DIY-style Linked Data deployment via Dropbox
2. http://bit.ly/MgSz3F -- ditto via Amazon S3 bucket.


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