- From: Ruben Verborgh <Ruben.Verborgh@UGent.be>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:40:52 +0000
- To: "Hammond, Tony" <tony.hammond@springernature.com>
- CC: "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Tony, > As mentioned in the earlier post to this list it is certainly a > priority item for us to to add support to Springer Nature SciGraph for > linked data dereferencing: That's great, thanks! > we are thinking to make the > data available through a generic JSON endpoint "Generic JSON endpoint" probably meaning "custom Web API"? Don't get me wrong, this is an understandable point of view form the perspective of Springer Nature, and I do congratulate you on publishing the data first, as this is where everything starts [1]. However, from the perspective of a Web data ecosystem, if every publisher just chooses their own interfaces, we as consumers are left with walled gardens once more. The data dumps at least let us have the data, but only for downloaders and not through a uniform interface. Dereferencing will realize part of that, but not querying. I recently wrote about social research networks and how they all get my personal metadata wrong, even though I'm giving it in perfect shape to them [2]. If all of you would just use the same interface, and the W3C has several valid options here, alignment would be a feasible task. Happy to discuss about options. Best regards, Ruben [1] http://blog.pieter.pm/2016/04/i-do-not-want-your-open-data-api-id-rather-scrape-your-website/ [2] https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/queryable-research-data/
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