- From: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:22:20 +0200
- To: "Norman Gray" <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>, "David Booth" <david@dbooth.org>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:32:55 +0200, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: > On 06/18/2013 05:58 AM, Norman Gray wrote: >> I've given a couple of lectures on 'the semantic web and linked data' >> to librarians/archivists/museum people. They're interested^Wobsessed >> by structured information, but largely uninterested in technology as >> such. They rather glaze when I talk about RDF and ontologies, but >> they _get_ Linked Data when I phrase it as 'the linked data web is >> the web for machines; it has the same good/bad/pragmatic >> sociotechnical features as the human-readable web, but because it's >> all RDF rather than all HTML, the machines can follow their noses >> just like we can on the human-readable web'. >> >> Phrased like that, or something like it, they can imagine its use in >> their practice, and why it's important. > > Yes! I could not agree more, except for one point. The reason this > debate arose was because a W3C technical specification -- the JSON-LD > spec -- was proposing to include a *definition* of Linked Data. And > that is very different than trying to convey a rough idea of Linked Data > to a non-technical audience. > > To my mind, if Linked Data is defined in a W3C technical specification > -- *especially* if that spec is coming from the RDF working group -- > then the definition needs to be complete and correct -- not merely > suggestive. We can of course debate the details of what that definition > should be, but that's a different matter. Well, if we are going to put a definition, we need to debate the details. IMHO, that's not a very productive activity. The term is deliberately "sorta kinda". Trying to change that seems like a bad idea, and getting a definition out of something like that is a more or less fruitless quest. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathie Nevile - Consultant (web standards) CTO Office, Yandex chaals@yandex-team.ru Find more at http://yandex.com
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