Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Eric Hellman
I'd like to step in here and add my 2 cents. My background in this is that of have started a company that produced a knowledgebase aggregation. We were a bit early to take advantage of most of the semantic web technologies, but we definitely made use of a lot of the early intellectual found

Re: The Public Domain (was Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS)

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Ian Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: The NYT, London Times, and others of this ilk, are more likely to contribute their quality data to the LOD cloud if they know there is a vehicle (e.g., a license scheme) that ens

Re: Contd LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Danny Ayers
2009/6/25 Ian Davis : > I think the onus is on the consumer to ensure they abide with the supplier's > wishes, not the other way round. It's really a matter or respect and > politeness to give people the credit they ask for. Certainly in principle, but the supplier should know what they are doing

Re: Contd LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Ian Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: I stand by my position, we are adhering to their terms. What they seek is de-referencable via their URIs which remain in scope at both the data presentation and representation l

The Public Domain (was Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS)

2009-06-24 Thread Ian Davis
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > The NYT, London Times, and others of this ilk, are more likely to > contribute their quality data to the LOD cloud if they know there is a > vehicle (e.g., a license scheme) that ensures their HTTP URIs are protected > i.e., always accessib

Re: Contd LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Ian Davis
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > > I stand by my position, we are adhering to their terms. > What they seek is de-referencable via their URIs which remain in scope at > both the data presentation and representation layers. > > I am sure Jamie and the folks at Freebase are

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Alan Ruttenberg wrote: Kingsley, Encouraging attribution by URI is a bad idea because it encourages people or organizations to create URIs where perfectly good ones exist, solely so that they can get their "attribution". Were this no cost, I wouldn't mind. But having more than one URI for a r

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
Kingsley, Encouraging attribution by URI is a bad idea because it encourages people or organizations to create URIs where perfectly good ones exist, solely so that they can get their "attribution". Were this no cost, I wouldn't mind. But having more than one URI for a resource causes real trouble f

Re: Contd LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : Kingsley Idehen wrote: Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : To save time etc.. What is the URI of a license that effectively enables data publishers to express and enforce how they are attributed? Wha

Re: Contd LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : > Kingsley Idehen wrote: >> >> Leigh Dodds wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : >>> To save time etc.. What is the URI of a license that effectively enables data publishers to express and enforce how they are attributed? Wh

Contd LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Kingsley Idehen wrote: Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : To save time etc.. What is the URI of a license that effectively enables data publishers to express and enforce how they are attributed? Whatever that is I am happy with. Whatever that is will be vital to attracting

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : To save time etc.. What is the URI of a license that effectively enables data publishers to express and enforce how they are attributed? Whatever that is I am happy with. Whatever that is will be vital to attracting curators of high quality

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Ian Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: My comments are still fundamentally about my preference for CC-BY-SA. Hence the transcopyright reference :-) I want Linked Data to have its GPL equivalent; a license scheme tha

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : > To save time etc.. > > What is the URI of a license that effectively enables data publishers to > express and enforce how they are attributed? Whatever that is I am happy > with. Whatever that is will be vital to attracting curators of high quality > data to the L

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Leigh Dodds wrote: 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : My comments are still fundamentally about my preference for CC-BY-SA. Hence the transcopyright reference :-) Unfortunately your preference doesn't actually it make it legally applicable to data and databases. The problem, as I see it, a

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Leigh Dodds
2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : > My comments are still fundamentally about my preference for CC-BY-SA.  Hence > the transcopyright reference :-) Unfortunately your preference doesn't actually it make it legally applicable to data and databases. The problem, as I see it, at the moment is that this is

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Ian Davis
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > My comments are still fundamentally about my preference for CC-BY-SA. > Hence the transcopyright reference :-) > > I want Linked Data to have its GPL equivalent; a license scheme that: Have you read the licenses at http://opendatacommons

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : When you publish said data as Linked Data you will be using an HTTP URI, and in doing so there is implicit attribution. If you retain the URIs of the source, or make explicit claims (e.g., dc:source) that expose the original data sources the

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, 2009/6/24 Kingsley Idehen : > When you publish said data as Linked Data you will be using an HTTP URI, and > in doing so there is implicit attribution. > If you retain the URIs of the source, or make explicit claims (e.g., > dc:source) that expose the original data sources then everything is f

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, 2009/6/24 Ian Davis : But your URIs conveys your point of view. The important thing here is that their is a route back to your data space; the place from which your point of view originates. If the pathways to the origins of data are obscured we are recreating yesterd

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Ian Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Kingsley Idehen mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com>> wrote: There will be dozens or hundreds of other documents that use the same URI and the owners of those datasets would like attribution for their work. For example, I can

Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-24 Thread Danny Ayers
Ivan, two words : more python! 2009/6/24 : > Ivan > > Thanks very much.  I'll take a look at your python scripts, which should be > very useful. > > Cheers > > Bill > > Van: Ivan Herman [mailto:i...@w3.org] > Verzonden: wo 24-6-2009 9:14 > Aan: Bill Roberts > CC:

RE: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-24 Thread bill.roberts
Ivan Thanks very much. I'll take a look at your python scripts, which should be very useful. Cheers Bill Van: Ivan Herman [mailto:i...@w3.org] Verzonden: wo 24-6-2009 9:14 Aan: Bill Roberts CC: public-lod@w3.org Onderwerp: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content

Re: List of public datasets on CKAN?

2009-06-24 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi Jonathan CKAN is a great and clean resource I was not aware of. Shame on me! BTW just corrected the package http://www.ckan.net/package/read/lingvoj which was written *linkvoj*. Actually that was a great typo, I should have thought of it when creating the resource, too late now, cool URIs do

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Hilmar Lapp
On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Peter Ansell wrote: Interestingly, there is a large economy involved with patenting gene sequences. Aren't they facts also? Why is patenting different to copyright in this respect? It isn't. I don't know of any gene sequence patent that was just that and wit

Re: Redundancy (was Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation)

2009-06-24 Thread Danny Ayers
2009/6/24 Ivan Herman : > Unfortunately, no:-( concise, but to the point, thanks :) -- http://danny.ayers.name

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

2009-06-24 Thread Danny Ayers
While we could have countless arguments over the appropriateness of DL (or OWL 2) in the Web environment, the bottom line is whether or not owl:imports adds useful information - seems hard to see a problem with that, whether agents can reason or not. The "follow your nose" thing. What's the problem

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, 2009/6/24 Ian Davis : >> But your URIs conveys your point of view. The important thing here is that >> their is a route back to your data space; the place from which your point of >> view originates. >> >> If the pathways to the origins of data are obscured we are recreating >> yesterday's eco

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Rob Styles
On 24 Jun 2009, at 00:04, Peter Ansell wrote: 2009/6/24 Ian Davis On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Kingsley Idehen > wrote: Using licensing to ensure the data providers URIs are always preserved delivers low cost and implicit attribution. This is what I believe CC-BY-SA delivers. There

Re: Redundancy (was Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation)

2009-06-24 Thread Ivan Herman
Danny Ayers wrote: > 2009/6/24 Ivan Herman : > > With the >> increasing popularity of RDFa our system guys have already complained >> about sudden server request surges on that service. Ie, although it is >> fine to use the service as it is in the .htaccess example (with full >> URI-s, though)

Re: LOD Data Sets, Licensing, and AWS

2009-06-24 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, 2009/6/23 Kingsley Idehen : > All, > > As you may have noticed, AWS still haven't made the LOD cloud data sets  -- > that I submitted eons ago -- public. Basically, the hold-up comes down to > discomfort with the lack of license clarity re. some of the data sets. Yes, this is an issue that Am

Redundancy (was Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation)

2009-06-24 Thread Danny Ayers
2009/6/24 Ivan Herman : With the > increasing popularity of RDFa our system guys have already complained > about sudden server request surges on that service. Ie, although it is > fine to use the service as it is in the .htaccess example (with full > URI-s, though) if you (or anybody else) uses i

Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-24 Thread Danny Ayers
Thank you for the excellent questions, Bill. Right now IMHO the best bet is probably just to pick whichever format you are most comfortable with (yup "it depends") and use that as the single source, transforming perhaps with scripts to generate the alternate representations for conneg. As far as

Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-24 Thread Ivan Herman
Bill, a while ago I wrote a blog on how I do it on the Semantic Web Activity home page: http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/using_rdfa_to_add_information.html the blog is from the early days of RDFa, some of the specific issues may be different today (see below), but the overall line, I believe, works