- From: Prateek <jainprateek@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:13:51 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
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For some reason, my original post didn't appear in the mailing list archives. My apologies for duplicate posts, if they show up here. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prateek <jainprateek@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:16 PM Subject: Re: There's No Money in Linked Data To: public-lod@w3.org, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, a.blumauer@semantic-web.at Hello All, I am one of the authors of the work being discussed. All the stuff I have seen till now is about Linked Data being great and useful for data integration within commercial settings. The work does not disputes that. I agree we didn't use the proper term, and from the reading of the work it becomes clear we didn't complain about this aspect. The work will be revised to correct the terminology and other feedback from the mailing list. The issue pointed out in the work is with Linked Open Data Cloud data sets. This is getting limited or no attention in the discussions. Its like saying the technology is awesome, lets not worry so much about the 'open' data sets. In Adrea's blog he is saying technology is mature now. That is great. But these technologies have been around for a while now. The question still remains, what about the 'open' datasets amassed till now? The 300+ datasets which everyone uses in their slides. In the blog "Yes, there is a critical mass of available LOD sources (for example UK Ordnance Survey) and also of high-quality thesauri and ontologies (for example Wolter Kluwer’s working law thesaurus) to be reused in corporate settings" But they have been around for about 6 yrs? Why haven't they been used till now besides academic playgrounds or for pure research? Is it not good enough to be used? In the hope it will happen one day? In your blog there is a link for use case of Linked Data. Why don't we find same thing for Linked Open Data? (These are all questions which I have pondered about, not a criticism) I have tried collecting the use cases before for LOD http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.public-lod/1575 The response was limited. Happy to see the discussion, but I think the main issue seems to be getting sidelined. Regards Prateek Note: The views expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my co-authors of the work 'There's No Money in Linked Data' and my employer. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Prateek Jain, Ph. D. RSM IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Road, 37-244 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/prateekj
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