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

On 24 June 2013 01:09, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:

> On 23 June 2013 23:46, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 6/23/13 5:36 PM, Barry Norton wrote:
>>
>>
>> Are you confusing Linked Data and Linked Open Data?
>>
>>
>> Of course not!
>>
>> Web-like structured data enhanced with explicit entity relationship
>> semantics enables serendipitous discovery at the public or private level.
>>
>> "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 ... "Open" became a quite difficult brand, I think in 2008 it was word
of the year, after which, there was a lot of popularity to use the term.
In certain circles it became a parody of itself, case in point, a recent
message to me from richard stallman.

[[

I note that the site uses almost exclusively the term "open source",
which is (sad to say) the slogan of people who reject our ideals.
Another way you can help us is by saying "free", or "free/libre"
to make things clearer.

]]

Many of these terms become politically loaded.  Perahps let's try not to
fall into the trap of becoming ambushed by ambuity ...

Just my 2 cents ...


>
> Dan
>
>
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> """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
>