- From: Frans Knibbe via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:53:11 +0000
- To: public-sdwig@w3.org
With partial knowledge of the Dutch situation, my impression is that the power of plain Linked Open Data, without embellishments like SPARQL or reasoning, is underestimated. Just assigning persistent IRIs to resources can be immensely fruitful. I think the trick is to publish datasets in such a way that they are manageable for consumers that are following their noses (a trail of hyperlinks). Big LOD datasets become consumable if they exist in data catalogs, if they have extensive metadata and if they are partitioned in a smart way. As a starting point, one should be able to easily find a dataset in a dataset catalog. Data catalogs of course can cascade. A data catalog of an organisation could be included in a national catalog, which in turn could be included in an international catalog. Each dataset that can be found in a dataset should have helpful and up-to-date metadata that should provide enough information on how to use and access the dataset. National spatial datasets can be quite big, so smart partitioning is often required for consumers to be able to make the jump from metadata to the dataset itself. Thankfully, spatial datasets should always be able to have at least some kind of spatial partitioning (e.g. have a hierarchy of provinces, municipalities and postal codes to access manageable chunks of data), perhaps next to other kinds of partitioning. I think good hierarchies in catalogs, metadata and datasets could make LOD both simple and powerful. But it is not something I have seen happening in the Netherlands. -- GitHub Notification of comment by FransKnibbe Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1328#issuecomment-1020484372 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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