Re: There's No Money in Linked Data

On 5/18/2013 8:46 AM, David Wood wrote:
> Good work, Pascal.  Some minor comments:
>
> 1)  Licenses (and license compliance) are issues with much broader
> communities, including Open Source software and other forms of open
> content.

yes, certainly :)

> 2)  I wish you had used the term Linked *Open* Data to avoid purely
> commercial users of Linked Data being confused.

I guess I'm guilty (as are many others in fact) of not being very clear 
in my terminology regarding the distinction of Liked Data and Linked 
Open Data. But then, our text shows that one has to take the "open" with 
a caveat ... so perhaps the confusion in terminology is actually 
indicative of a deeper problem ... ?

Pascal.

> Regards, Dave -- http://about.me/david_wood
>
>
>
> On May 17, 2013, at 22:15, 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
>>
>> -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State
>> University, Dayton, OH pascal@pascal-hitzler.de
>> http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook:
>> http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal:
>> http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
>>
>>
>

-- 
Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
pascal@pascal-hitzler.de   http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/
Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org
Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net

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