- From: Barry Norton <barry.norton@ontotext.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:50:19 +0000
- To: public-lod@w3.org
Glad to say that a large national broadcaster is moving towards good practice on this score. Barry On 30/03/13 14:35, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > All, > > " Citing sources is useful for many reasons: (a) it shows that it > isn't a half-baked idea I just pulled out of thin air, (b) it provides > a reference for anybody who wants to dig into the subject, and (c) it > shows where the ideas originated and how they're likely to evolve." -- > John F. Sowa [1]. > > An HTTP URI is an extremely powerful citation and attribution > mechanism. Incorporate Linked Data principles and the power increases > exponentially. > > It is okay to consume Linked Data from wherever and publish HTML > documents based on source data modulo discoverable original sources > Linked Data URIs. > > It isn't okay, to consume publicly available Linked Data from sources > such as the LOD cloud and then republish the extracted content using > HTML documents, where the original source Linked Data URIs aren't > undiscoverable by humans or machines. > > The academic community has always had a very strong regard for > citations and source references. Thus, there's no reason why the > utility of Linked Data URIs shouldn't be used to reinforce this > best-practice, at Web-scale . > > Links: > > 1. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-03/msg00084.html > -- ontolog list post . >
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