- From: Andreas Blumauer <a.blumauer@semantic-web.at>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:08:56 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Pascal Hitzler <pascal.hitzler@wright.edu>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
I've published a blog post entitled 'There's Money in Linked Data'. Available from: http://blog.semantic-web.at/2013/06/04/theres-money-in-linked-data/ - Andreas Blumauer Managing Director & CEO http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasblumauer Semantic Web Company GmbH Mariahilfer Straße 70 / 8 A - 1070 Vienna, Austria http://www.semantic-web.at http://www.poolparty-software.com Phone (Austria): +43-1-402123527 Phone (US): +1 (415) 800-3776 Mobile: +43-676-9234162 skype:blumauerpunkt ----- Original Message ----- | We just finished a piece indicating serious legal issues regarding the | commercialization of Linked Data - this may be of general interest, | hence the post. We hope to stimulate discussions on this issue (hence | the provokative title). | Available from | http://knoesis.wright.edu/faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.pdf | Abstract. | Linked Data (LD) has been an active research area for more than 6 years | and many aspects about publishing, retrieving, linking, and cleaning | Linked Data have been investigated. There seems to be a broad and | general agreement that in principle LD datasets can be very useful for | solving a wide variety of problems ranging from practical industrial | analytics to highly specific research problems. Having these notions in | mind, we started exploring the use of notable LD datasets such as | DBpedia, Freebase, Geonames and others for a commercial application. | However, it turns out that using these datasets in realistic settings is | not always easy. Surprisingly, in many cases the underlying issues are | not technical but legal barriers erected by the LD data publishers. In | this paper we argue that these barriers are often not justified, | detrimental to both data publishers and users, and are often built | without much consideration of their consequences. | Authors: | Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Chitra Venkatramani | -- | Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler | Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH | pascal@pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ | Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org | Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
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