Re: The Great Public Linked Data Use Case Register for Non-Technical End User Applications

On 23 June 2013 23:46, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

>  On 6/23/13 5:36 PM, Barry Norton wrote:
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> Are you confusing Linked Data and Linked Open Data?
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> Of course not!
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> Web-like structured data enhanced with explicit entity relationship
> semantics enables serendipitous discovery at the public or private level.
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> "Open" has nothing to do with "Public" . "Open" is about standards and the
> interoperability they accord.
>

What part of
http://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?title=SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData&oldid=35551am
I misunderstanding? The early LOD collaborations had a clear emphasis
on
open in the sense of freely available data. I can see merit in broadening
that, but to say "has nothing to do with" seems at odds with how a lot of
people appeared to be understanding the initiative.

Dan



"""Interlinking Open Data on the Semantic Web

Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak

*1. Please provide a brief description of your proposed project.*

The Open Data Movement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data> aims at
making data freely available to everyone. There are already various
interesting open data sources availiable on the Web. Examples include
Wikipedia <http://www.wikipedia.org/>,Wikibooks <http://www.wikipedia.org/>
, Geonames <http://www.geonames.org/>, MusicBrainz <http://musicbrainz.org/>
, WorldNet <http://wordnet.princeton.edu/online/>, the DBLP
bibliography<http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/> and
many more which are published under Creative
Commons<http://creativecommons.org/>
 or Talis <http://www.talis.com/tdn/tcl> licenses.

The goal of the proposed project is to make various open data sources
available on the Web as RDF and to set RDF links between data items from
different data sources.

There are already some data publishing efforts. Examples include the
dbpedia.org <http://dbpedia.org/docs/> project, the Geonames
Ontology<http://www.geonames.org/ontology/> and
a D2R Server publishing the DBLP
bibliography<http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/dblp/>.
There are also initial efforts to interlink these data sources. For
instance, the dpedia RDF descriptions of cities includes owl:sameAs links
to the Geonames data about the city (1) <http://dbpedia.org/docs/#link>.
Another example is the RDF Book
Mashup<http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/bookmashup/> which
links book authors to paper authors within the DBLP bibliography
(2)<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2006Dec/0022>
.

*2. Why did you select this particular project?*

For demonstrating the value of the Semantic Web it is essential to have
more real-world data online. RDF is also the obvious technology to
interlink open data from various sources.

*3. Why do you think this project will have a wide impact?*

A huge inter-linked data set would be beneficial for various Semantic Web
development areas, including Semantic Web browsers and other user
interfaces, Semantic Web crawlers, RDF repositories and reasoning engines.

Having a variety of useful data online would encourage people to link to it
and could help bootstrapping the Semantic Web as a whole."""


Dan