Re: Call for Linked Research

On 7/30/14 3:25 AM, Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
>
> If there was a pain that LD could really solve people would have used 
> it without anyone "calling" for it. The mith of "put the data and it 
> wil be useful" was nice to believe in for a while (early LOD efforts, 
> 2007 or so ) but has - quite unfortunately -  disolved long since then.

You aren't characterizing the problem accurately, what you state above 
is s misconception.

The pain/challenge:

Free flowing encoding and decoding of information, by anyone, from 
anywhere, whenever. No silos in the mix.

The solution:

A open standards based mechanism to alleviate the problem outlined above 
i.e., Linked Open Data.

[1] http://slidesha.re/1o6M8jh -- Understanding Data

[2] http://slidesha.re/QEqLZN -- RDF & Natural Language

[3] http://bit.ly/blog-post-about-nanotation -- How to express yourself 
(on any HTTP network) via micro-annotation (Nanotations) .

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