Comments on: Linked, open, semantic?

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Semantic web (21/11/09) « pintiniblog — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:21:41 +0000

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Signals from CETIS09 « UK Web Focus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:13:07 +0000

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http://bit.ly/2NrNQn – My understanding: #tdwg … — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:09:36 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:35:46 +0000

Clear thinking and good definitions. I have sent this around broadly in my data center to help people understand what I’ve been rambling about the last year or two. Thanks. The Polar Information Commons also seeks to adopt this approach http://polarcommons.org

By: paul

paul — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:37:37 +0000

Adrian,
thanks for the comment – valid and useful. I take your point, although I was trying to make the point that open!=linked. Perhaps it is counter-productive to use ‘open’ to mean (as I did) ‘not completely closed’, as this kind of ‘open’ can conceal all kinds of potential problem.

Thanks again.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:44:45 +0000

You say: “Essentially, I generally take ‘open’ to mean accessible to all, notwithstanding conditions of use.”
I think this is a too broad conception of “open”. Conditions of use and reuse play a major role in the concept of open data. Otherwise, all data (e.g. amazon or google-books) which is accessible and searchable via an interface would be open even if you cannot reuse this data.

Do you know http://opendefinition.org by the Open Knowledge Foundation (http://okfn.org/)? They put some effort into defining “open”. The short version goes: “A piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it”.
The OKFN also created CKAN (http://www.ckan.net/), a registry of “open” data projects and packets and their alignment with the open definition.

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By: paul

paul — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:51:45 +0000

So long as the rest of the world can see this stuff, it probably isn’t succeeding

By: David F. Flanders

David F. Flanders — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:44:28 +0000

So what do you think the rest of the world will have to say about this stuff once it starts to get used by more than a small group of Web geeks? <– proud to be one of course.