Re: A Distributed Economy -- A blog involving Linked Data

+1, nicely put Kingsley
--Gannon
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On Fri, 9/19/14, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: A Distributed Economy -- A blog involving Linked Data
 To: public-lod@w3.org
 Date: Friday, September 19, 2014, 5:48 PM
 
 
     On 9/19/14 4:38 PM,
 Brent Shambaugh
       wrote:
 
     
     
       Manu Sporny's post titled "Building
 Linked Data into the Core
         of the Web"
 
         [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Sep/0063.html]
         led to the question:
 
       
       is linked data and semantic web tech useful? I
 think so. I
         can only speak from my own perspective and
 experience.
     
     
 
     Brent,
 
     
 
     Pasting my reply to Manu (with some editing) here, as I
 think its
     important:
 
     
 
     Manu,
     
 
     
 
     It is misleading (albeit inadvertent in regards to your
 post above)
     to infer that Linked Data isn't already the core of
 the Web. The
     absolute fact of the matter is that Linked Data has been
 the core of
     the Web since it was an idea [1][2].
     
 
     
 
     The Web doesn't work at all if HTTP URIs aren't
 names for:
     
 
     
 
     [1] What exists on the Web
     
 
     [2] What exists, period.
     
 
     
 
     We just have the misfortune of poor communications
 mucking up proper
     comprehension of AWWW. For example, RDF should have been
 presented
     to the world as an effort by the W3C to standardize an
 existing
     aspect of the Web i.e., the ability to leverage HTTP
 URIs as
     mechanisms for:
     
 
     
 
     1. entity identification & naming
     
 
     2. entity description using sentences or statements --
 where (as is
     the case re., natural language) a sentence or statement
 is comprised
     of a subject, predicate, and object.
     
 
     
 
     Instead, we ended up with an incomprehensible,
 indefensible, and at
     best draconian narrative that has forever tainted the
 letters
     "R-D-F" .  And to compount matters,
 "HttpRange-14" has become
     censorship tool (based on its ridiculous history), that
 blurs fixing
     this horrible state of affairs.
     
 
     
 
     Links:
     
 
     
 
     [1] http://bit.ly/10Y9FL1
     -- Evidence that Linked Data was always at the core of
 the Web
     (excuse some instability on my personal data space
 instance, at this
     point in time, should you encounter issues looking up
 the document
     identified by this HTTP URI)
     
 
     
 
     [2] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/03/world-wide-web-25-years-later.html
     -- World Wide Web, 25 years later
     
 
     
 
     [3] http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/b4/79/04b4794ccf2b6fd14ed3c822be26382f.jpg
     -- Illustrating identification (naming) on the Web (re.,
 things that
     exist on or off the Web medium) .
     
 
     
 
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     -- 
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