Should this be stipulated as part of a license agreement?
Dominic
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From: Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com>
To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
Sent: Saturday, 30 March 2013, 14:35
Subject: Why is it bad practice to consume Linked Data and publish opaque HTML
pages?
All,
" Citing sources is useful for many reasons: (a) it shows that it isn't a
half-baked idea I just pulled out of thin air, (b) it provides a reference for
anybody who wants to dig into the subject, and (c) it shows where the ideas
originated and how they're likely to evolve." -- John F. Sowa [1].
An HTTP URI is an extremely powerful citation and attribution mechanism.
Incorporate Linked Data principles and the power increases exponentially.
It is okay to consume Linked Data from wherever and publish HTML documents
based on source data modulo discoverable original sources Linked Data URIs.
It isn't okay, to consume publicly available Linked Data from sources such as
the LOD cloud and then republish the extracted content using HTML documents,
where the original source Linked Data URIs aren't undiscoverable by humans or
machines.
The academic community has always had a very strong regard for citations and
source references. Thus, there's no reason why the utility of Linked Data URIs
shouldn't be used to reinforce this best-practice, at Web-scale .
Links:
1. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-03/msg00084.html -- ontolog
list post .
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