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

On 24/06/13 13:44, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> As you've indicated, there have been many attempts at this over the
> years and they never take-off or meet their goals etc.. The problem is
> that a different approach is required. Basically, in this scenario lies
> a simple Linked Data publication usecase i.e., a problem that Linked
> Data addresses.
>
> The steps:
>
> 1. use a Linked Data document to describe you product, service,
> platform, usecase
> 2. publish the document
> 3. make people aware of the document.
>
> Crawlers will find your document. The content of the document will show
> up in search results.

There is, of course, the W3C community directory [1] which works exactly 
that way. It has "project" rather than "usecase", and might need some 
extensions to support the fields that Dominic was suggesting. But it 
does provide a form based way to generate the initial RDF for you to 
publish, does the crawling and they provides a UI over the crawl.

> The trouble is ...

[complaints snipped]

> People need to understand that "scribbling" is a natural Web pattern
> i.e., rough cuts are okay since improvements will be continuous.

Reusing patterns does make it easier for tools to aggregate and present 
data. The perfect might be the enemy of the good, but sometimes a little 
effort to do things consistently is good.

Dave

[1] http://dir.w3.org/

Received on Monday, 24 June 2013 13:24:10 UTC