- From: Georgi Kobilarov <georgi.kobilarov@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:45:51 +0200
- To: "'Michael Smethurst'" <michael.smethurst@bbc.co.uk>, "'Hugh Glaser'" <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "'Dave Reynolds'" <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>, 'Sören Auer' <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Cc: "'Linking Open Data'" <public-lod@w3.org>, "'SW-forum'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Michael, > >>> Insofar PUBLINK rather clears the way for commercial linked data > >>> service providers. > > By doing what? Which bits does publink do and which bits are left to the > commercial sector? > > From the lines above it aims to help "people in organizations who want to > persuade their decision makers" or persuade decision makers in general with > demos > > Personally I think if that's the intention it's good. I know where to find help > with data modelling, hosting, data consolidation, existing ontologies, content > negotiation etc etc. But I don't know where to go for help translating > developer understanding to business understanding > The intention is good, I agree, but centralizing all of the work into just one consortium isn't. One research consortium as the new linked data monopolist, that's not the message to send out into the world. Plus, in my opinion there is little of a business model in publishing data in itself. There can only be a business model in having other people use data, for which publishing is one necessity of course. So the showcases for the business will be on the data consumption side, and these demos should be developed by people who know how to build demos and showcases. "Persuading" a few more data publishers won't change the landscape, so I'd much rather see that money go into e.g. developer/design competitions like the Sunlight Foundation is doing in the US. Cheers, Georgi
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