Re: [linking-data] What else links to my subject of interest?

And as we all know about Dragons, there is nothing you can do other than
fear them... Just live your lives hoping you are not unlucky...

I suggest a similar approach - it's not our problem to reconcile false
assertions, just be aware of their likelihood.

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 at 16:58 Jeremy Tandy <jeremy.tandy@gmail.com> wrote:

> From discussions on yesterday's call:
>
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> BillRoberts sees this problem occur routinely. Statistical data (expressed
> in RDF Data Cubes for example) often relates to geographic and
> administrative areas. Many statistical datasets may use the same "spatial"
> dataset. A common use case is to look for other statistics relating the
> subject administrative area.
>
> Beware that there is no limit to how many times resources may have linked
> to (referred to) a given subject area ... there may be thousands of
> 'back-links'. How do we prioritise which ones to show/use?
>
> (BillRoberts says that the situation is quite easy if you have all the
> necessary information in your triple-store - or even if you can federate
> your query across a number of known SPARQL end-points. However, what about
> the "unknowns" - how do you discover what else is "out there" that refers
> to your subject? How do you find third party content? This is a
> discoverability concern ['''see related theme "enabling discovery"'''])
>
> Is there a place for (domain-specific) catalogues where one can register
> assertions about / references to a subject? For example [http://sameas.org
> sameas.org] provides a place where owl:sameAs assertions can be
> registered ... perhaps, say, data.gov.uk could allow open data publishers
> to register information about resources that are identified in URISets in
> the data.gov.uk domain???
>
> (Ed notes that "there be dragons" when you're trying to reconcile
> different statistical data that assert that they are (apparently) talking
> about the same location or area ... )
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 at 09:35 Jeremy Tandy <jeremy.tandy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Email thread for collecting discussion on the question: "What else links
>> to my subject of interest?"
>>
>> The related wiki entry for this questions is here [1]
>>
>> For instructions about how to engage with this discussion, please see my
>> previous email [2].
>>
>> Many thanks. Jeremy
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Linking_Data#What_else_links_to_my_subject_of_interest.3F
>> <https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Linking_Data#How_can_I_describe_links_in_my_format_of_choice.3F>
>>
>> [2]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2015Sep/0044.html
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