Data sharing is easier said than done, as demonstrated in the (funny but a little sad!!) video below. It's a true story - I'm sure. You will laugh and you will cry.
Data represents a significant investment but you would never know it from the way that data is typically (mis)handled. Data is usually stored in such a way that the precise meaning of certain data is lost. A retrospective process of 'semantic elucidation' is often too expensive and sometimes impossible, and this is what leads to what I sometimes cynically call an endless supply of ‘disposable data’. I would argue that the 'added value' of a Semantic Web approach to data is the prevention of almost certain loss. “Semantically disambiguate early and often.” - M. Scott Marshall http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N2zK3sAtr-4 [Orig. shared by +Andre Dekker . I see that I apparently missed it when +Trish Whetzel shared this gem.] My first post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114642613065018821852/posts/P6AkPDa3tfo -- M. Scott Marshall, PhD MAASTRO clinic, http://www.maastro.nl/en/1/ http://eurecaproject.eu/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/114642613065018821852/posts http://www.linkedin.com/pub/m-scott-marshall/5/464/a22