Re: There's No Money in Linked Data

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Pascal Hitzler
<pascal.hitzler@wright.edu> wrote:
> 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
>



Thanks, Pascal and co. Very useful!

It seems the suggestion here is to release under public domain for the
greatest freedom?



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> Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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Received on Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:33:19 UTC