As some of you have worked out by now, I am getting frustrated trying to
provide links from my stuff to the other stuff.
When I do find the links, they may be of dubious quality, but worse
still, I
am having difficulty finding them at all.
So I started at dbpedia, and followed outgoing arrows.
Firstly I tried to find some MusicBrainz stuff. No links that I could
find
for the bands and songs I could think of.
So I saw Gutenburg; excellent, I can't see anything in dbpedia, but
finally
managed to do a SPARQL query on gutenburg (the browsing doesn't seem to
work), that showed me that gutenburg knows about "Ozma of Oz" and so
does
wikipedia.
But still no link in dbpedia.
I am pleased to report that China gets me from dbpedia to the Factbook.
So I decided to do some looking at links to dbpedia.
And I found for example that magnatune uses dbpedia country links,
which is
good, but I haven't yet managed to get from Crunchbase to dbpedia for
something like microsoft.
So then I look at the (my) RKB cloud, and can report that the links from
courseware to the outside are all about languages (I think), which would
disappoint someone coming looking for courses in www.w3.org or
dbpedia via
that route.
Am I doing something wrong here, or is it really the case that our
much-loved LOD diagrams are misleading, or at best will not give
newcomers
the links they are expecting?
If that is the case, how could we be more clear and helpful?
And before Michael says it, yes, maybe void is an answer to show
people what
the nature of the links are and where to find them?
