AW: AW: ANN: LOD Cloud - Statistics and compliance with best practices

Hi Martin,

> The fact that there is obviously a lot of low quality data on the
> current Web should not encourage us to publish masses of low-quality
> data and then celebrate ourselves for having achieved a lot. The
> current Web tolerates buggy markup, broken links, and questionable
> content of all types. But I hope everybody agrees that the Web is
> successful because of this tolerance, not because of the buggy content
> itself. Quite to the contrary, the Web has been broadly adopted
> because of the lots of commonly agreed high-quality contents.

Sure, where is the problem? 

The same holds for the Web of Data: There is a lot of high quality content
and a lot of low quality content.
Which means - as on the classic Web - that the data consumer need to decide
which content it wants to use.

If the Web has proved anything than that having a completely open
architecture is a crucial factor for being able to succeed on global scale. 
The Web of Linked Data also aims at global scale. Thus, I will keep on
betting on open solutions without curation or any other bottle neck. 

> If you continue to live the linked data landfill style it will fall
> back on you, reputation-wise, funding-wise, and career-wise. Some
> rules hold in ecosystems of all kinds and sizes.

Sorry, you are leaving the grounds of scientific discussion here and I will
thus not comment.

Best,

Chris


> Best
> 
> Martin

Received on Friday, 22 October 2010 14:47:07 UTC