- From: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:49:08 +0200
- To: "'Martin Hepp'" <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, "'public-lod'" <public-lod@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Juan Sequeda'" <juanfederico@gmail.com>, "'Denny Vrandecic'" <denny.vrandecic@kit.edu>, "'Kingsley Idehen'" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "'Semantic Web'" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "'Enrico Motta'" <e.motta@open.ac.uk>, "'Thomas Steiner'" <tsteiner@google.com>, "'Anja Jentzsch'" <anja@anjeve.de>, "'semanticweb'" <semanticweb@yahoogroups.com>, "'Giovanni Tummarello'" <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>, "'Mathieu d'Aquin'" <m.daquin@open.ac.uk>
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
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