On 06/11/2013 04:20 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 6/11/13 4:12 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:This is the goal of the Semantic Web: to enable machines to usefully and (semi-)automatically, find, share, combine and process web data. Because Linked Data is RDF, Linked Data supports that goal in a very important way that Linked Stuff does not. We already have the 5 stars of linked data. If you use RDF you're probably 5 star. If you dont you're probably 4 star or lower. That said, there may be some other linked data system one day become a 5 star standard.
The stars are to encourage people *toward* Linked Open Data -- both Linked Data and fully Open Data. The stars do *not* indicate that there is such a thing as "one-star Linked Data" or "four-star Linked Data". Think about it. Would it make any sense to call a PDF document "Linked Data" just because it is on the web with an open license? Of course not. But it would qualify for one star on the path *toward* Linked Open Data.
Great point! The 5-Star Open Data system [1] is a nice approach to framing this most challenging of narratives. It's greatest virtue is not putting RDF at the front-door :-) Links: 1. http://5stardata.info/ -- 5-Start Open Data
That is *Open* Data -- not *Linked* Data. When you reach all five stars it becomes both: Linked Open Data.
David
