- From: Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) <a.blumauer@semantic-web.at>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:03:54 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Prateek <jainprateek@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <1116572987.167825.1370610234771.JavaMail.root@semantic-web.at>
Hi Prateek, hi all, thank you for the more precise formulation of your hypothesis. I've been thinking for a while what the reasons are for the low uptake of LOD in non-academic projects. Here is the outcome: http://blog.semantic-web.at/2013/06/07/the-lod-cloud-is-dead-long-live-the-trusted-lod-cloud/ What do you think? Kind Regards, Andreas ----- Original Message ----- | 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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