On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com> wrote: > Ian Davis wrote: >> >> Kingsley, >> >> You should address your question directly to the project organisers, >> we're a technology provider and host some of the data but it is not up >> to us when or where the dumps get shared. My understanding is that >> because this is officially sanctioned data they want to ensure that >> the provenance is built into the datasets properly. My hope and wish >> is that the commitment to making dumps available will be built into >> the guidelines the UK Government are working on. But those won't be >> issued during this month because of the election. >> > > Okay, but the need for dumps is working its way into the fundamental > guidelines for Linked Open Data. > > As you can imagine (and I have raised these concerns on the UK Govt mailing > list a few times), this project is high profile and closely associated with > Linked Open Data; thus, unclarity about these RDF dumps is confusing to say > the very least. > > Anyway, I am set for now, will wait and see re. what happens post election > etc.. >
I should also add that some datasets do not have dumps, e.g. the reference time and dates http://reference.data.gov.uk/doc/hour/2010-03-23T21 Ian