Re: Linked Data Book in Early Access Release

On 12/6/12 7:15 PM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
> Excerpts from Kingsley Idehen's message of 2012-12-06 18:40:56 +0000:
>> On 12/6/12 12:07 PM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Kingsley Idehen's message of 2012-12-06 16:07:41 +0000:
>>>> In addition to the above, here's a link to a sample book description
>>>> that incorporates terms from GoodRelations: http://bit.ly/RaYuKi .
>>> Kingsley and Folks, apologies if I sidetrack to much and please point me to more proper discussion space!
>>>
>>> looking at this shortened URI with bit.ly domain, if I wanted to represent archive of this mailing list in RDF (SIOC whatever) would You recommend me dereferencing this URI and storing and extra triple with canonical URI? still for older posts if a used shortening service goes down...
>>>
>>>> The book publishers can use this as a guide etc..
>>>>
>>>
>> If you want a Linked Data URI, it is:
>> http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/id/entity/http/www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0226846504
>> .
>>
>> Verification:
>> http://idi.fundacionctic.org/vapour?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flinkeddata.uriburner.com%2Fabout%2Fid%2Fentity%2Fhttp%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fo%2FASIN%2F0226846504&defaultResponse=dontmind&userAgent=vapour.sourceforge.net
> thank you Kingsley for fast reply :)
> most likely I haven't expressed myself clearly - reading my message again I find it confusing myself :(
>
> I wanted to ask about your views on using URL shortening services and depending later on URIs with their domains. possibly paranoid view but if we use some of those services heavily it seams to me like creating *single point(s) of failure* like in case where bit.ly would just shut down service and make impossible dereferencing shortened URIs

A URL shortener is just that, it provides shortened URL (which also 
denotes a Web Document). They don't provide an kind of canonical naming 
for Web Documents or other entity types.

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> I have similar concerns with any services which have IMO kind of monopolistic tendencies: google, dropbox, amazon, microsoft  etc. but maybe in such case I should also worry about position of dbpedia in could of LOD?

DBpedia is just one of many data spaces in the LOD cloud. The cloud is 
inherently federated, like the Web itself. This will become clearer as 
the LOD cloud increases in density.

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> apologies once more for sometimes writing messages in confusing way and tendencies to drift away with topics...
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