Re: comments from a readthrough of the whole report

On 22 Aug 2011, at 16:01, Antoine Isaac wrote:

> Hi Jodi,
> 
> Thanks a lot for reading once again the report!
> On the "data" stuff:
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>> ==DATA AVAILABILITY==
>> 1) "More has been done on value vocabularies and element sets than on bibliographic datasets" -- The "more has been done" doesn't sound very good to my ears. Could we rephrase this? The best I can come up with is "Bibliographic datasets have received less work than value vocabularies and element sets"?
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> How about "Bibliographic datasets have received less attention than value vocabularies and element sets"
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_Vocabularies_Datasets_As_Current_Situation&diff=5827&oldid=5824

Much better! :)


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>> ===MORE HAS BEEN DONE ON VALUE VOCABULARIES AND ELEMENT SETS THAN ON BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATASETS===
>> 1) "Examples such the release of the British National Bibliography show that there are indeed considerable difficulties involved (many discussed in this report). However, this proves not deterring enough, and the number of datasets released as linked data keeps increasing at a fast pace."
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>> I think the difficulties need to either be directly mentioned, or a report from the BNB mentioned; otherwise this stands as a caution against adopting LLD.
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> Like this one?
> http://consulting.talis.com/case-study/british-library-explores-linked-data/

I only skimmed this -- but my impression is that it's a bit promotional and not very detailed.

My point is that this sounds off-putting without giving any details: "there are indeed considerable difficulties involved (many discussed in this report)." Maybe the difficulties could be enumerated, or otherwise referred to?


:) -Jodi

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>> Draft Vocabularies Datasets As Current Situation
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_Vocabularies_Datasets_As_Current_Situation&diff=5808&oldid=5779
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>> Draft Vocabularies Datasets Section2
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_Vocabularies_Datasets_Section2&diff=5816&oldid=5796
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> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Antoine
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