Re: [sdw] BP 10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies gone (#1328)

We may be hung up on semantics of "best" here - common practice is data silos and ineffective data integration strategies - does that "median" qualify as "best" ?  

"I do think this work is still valuable. LOD / LD is the only framework that provides a path forward for data management at scale."  - whilst I also havent identified another viable candidate - can we say "only".  Is "only" sufficiently close to "best" ? 

I note the EU data strategy talks about "data spaces" and the "international data spaces"  reference model states "the Declarative Representation (IDS Ontology) is the only normative specification of the Information Model."  It also is agnostic about physical representation but it does state "A (Digital) Resource in the context of the International
Data Spaces is a uniquely identifiable, valuable, digital (i.e.
non-physical) commodity that can be traded and exchanged
between remote participants using the IDS infrastructure." 

Maybe we can reflect on this and make a stronger statement about the underlying principle which is less dogmatic about the expression and state something like "best practice for data on the web is to use unambiguous identifiers for resources, such as the use of HTTP identifiers in Linked Data. Alternative ubiquitous identifier resolution infrastructure has yet to emerge, so this remains a candidate best practice in spite of the preponderance of disconnected data with locally scoped identifiers"









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