- From: Chris Bizer <bizer@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:28:50 +0100
- To: "'Frank Manola'" <fmanola@acm.org>
- Cc: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Frank, > b. No point in being critical. Google already *had* a central Web > data repository. All they're doing is adding structured data to it, and > doing it in a "distributed" way (by asking everyone to contribute to > it). This seems a reasonable variant of the basic SW idea. The fact > that it is centrally *stored* should be just a technicality, provided > the data is freely accessible. Yes. I think free access to the data is the central point. When I read the press about Google Base threatening eBay and other market places or when I read stuff like Tim O'Reilly's "Data is the Next Intel Inside" (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20. html?page=3) I'm wondering if Google's business model can be to give everybody free access to the data? Up till now, they only provide an HTML interface but no API. Anybody a clue if they are going to change this? I doubt it and that is the problem. > c. We should be *very* happy that Google is promoting the idea of > publishing structured data on the Web (maybe this will prod others into > taking this more seriously than they are now). I totally agree with you here. Chris
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