Re: Survey: Use of this list for Calls for Papers

+1 to stuff like "[CfP]" (and also "[RFP]," etc) added to Subject lines. +100 to people refraining from submitting bogusly long [CfP]'s. These simply AREN'T necessary! [CfP] emails should be limited to very brief summaries of the CfP --- possibly "structured," but a very few elements, and a LINK.

Re: Algorithm evaluation on the complete LOD cloud?

I'm somewhat amused by the idea of a "complete LOD cloud..." ;) On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Laurens Rietveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing some research on evaluating algorithms on the complete LOD cloud > (via http://lodlaundromat.org), and am looking for existing papers and > algorithms t

Re: Microsoft OLE

This is not crazy, just a bit insane ;) OLE structured storage is analogous to XML; indeed, it is in many ways a binary precursor to XML. You're biggest problem will be that it represents structure and not relationships; "converting" information packed in OLE-SS into sensible RDF presents the same

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

This is an incredibly rich and interestingly conversation. I think there are two separate themes: 1. What is required and/or asked-for by the conference organizers... a. ...that is needed for the review process b. ...that is needed to implement value-added services for the conference c. ...that con

Re: Sharing George Thomas' legacy with colleagues & scholars

Thanks very much for this update, Bernadette! It is exciting to see George's growing legacy in the community his wisdom, hard work and energy helped create! John On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Bernadette Hyland wrote: > Hi, > Some of you worked with George Thomas, my fellow W3C Government Li

Re: ORCID as Linked Data

I agree with Leigh, this is a great addition. Our team is working on a VIVO extension that will do bibliographic RDF import based on DOIs using CrossRef's linked data access capability. Now we'll take a look at a similar capability for ORCID identifiers! John On Tue, Jun 17,

Re: What happened to my trusted Turtle validator and converter?

I believe Gregg meant: http://linter.structured-data.org/ On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Gregg Kellogg wrote: > Phil, if you could add my distiller , > and the Structured Data Linter they > would serve a couple of pur

Re: Alternative Linked Data principles

Luca, I think you are not asking quite the right question; I think what you want to ask is whether the Linked Data Principles can be applied to different... * entity identifiers... * protocols with which to resolve and retrieve information about those entities * protocols with which to retrieve ma

Re: [datahub-discuss] Lot's of eggs, but where is the chicken? Foundation of a Data ID Unit

This is interesting...So, could *someone* please provide context w.r.t. a couple prior and/or ongoing efforts: * W3C DCAT * Schema.og/Dataset * Various Research Data Alliance (RDA) WGs on data citation, persistent identification and ty

Re: OpenRefine

Hugh, I wonder if you could be more specific regarding the troubles you had with OpenRefine? One of our students also had trouble, and I'm wondering if it might be the same problem. Like you, reconciliation with Refine has worked for me in the past but I haven't tried the same process using OpenR

Re: License LINK Headers and Linked Data

Leigh et.al., you may be interested in (the great) Henry Perritt's seminal _1993_ paper "Knowbots, Permissions Headers and Contract Law" [1] Prof. Perritt wrote this in the very early days of the Web, when few people were thinking (clearly) about copyright on the Internet and fewer still were cont

Re: Licensing advice

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Gannon Dick wrote: > My two cents: Isn't Linked Data supererogatory in any Jurisdiction ? > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/supererogation/ "(Linked Data) raises interesting problems both on the meta-ethical level of deontic logic and on the normative level of

Re: Licensing advice

My two cents: In many legal regimes it has been successfully argued that "code is speech." The imperative vs declarative distinction is likely to fail; if the code conveys "information" intended to control the operation of another system, it can be argued that it is a form of speech (and not merely

Re: Linked Data version of ICD

Marcello, this is not precisely what you are looking for but it might prove helpful if you decide to build an ICD "instance hub" yourself: http://www.icd10data.com/ URIs from the above site are finer-grained than on the WHO site; compare the following: * http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/H60

Re: Open Data Rights Statements

Leigh, this is *fantastic*; thanks for your contributions and bringing ODRS to our attention! I think something that could help with ODRS adoption is (are?) some lightweight, community-sourced examples that demonstrate its use in different (esp. legal) contexts. John On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:23

Re: Linked Data Glossary is published!

Thanks for your comments, Kanzaki! You wrote: > 1. 5 Star ...: > I'm afraid I don't understand why XML is 2-star (implying proprietary > format), lower rated than CSV. Does it mean Excel ? (but even Excel uses > non-proprietary OpenXML now). > I'd suggest this section should include a link to the

Re: Percentages in Linked Data

Frans, I think you may be interested in the W3C RDF Data Cube vocabulary: http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/ "Abstract: There are many situations where it would be useful to be able to publish multi-dimensional data, such as statistics, on the web in such a way that it can be linked to related

Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Luca Matteis wrote: > > So how do we define the line between Documents and Data? Is HTML a document > and RDF data? But then HTML annotated as RDFa becomes data? > No. I think you're losing the "linked" distinction. * You can use the Web to distribute data, but..

Re: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

NOTE: Getting various US government agencies "up to speed" on providing their open data as Linked Data (tm) is a *process* that includes preparing useful/actionable best practices, accompanied by a set of relevant standards. This has been the work of the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group ove

Re: Publication of scientific research

Participants in this thread might be interested in/should be reminded of the recent "Beyond the PDF 2" #btpdf2 conference in Amsterdam; see the "Outcomes" page at: http://www.force11.org/outcomes I mention this partly because themes from that conference are emerging in this thread, and because som

Re: IRC channel?

FYI --- and FWIW --- a (hyper)active subset of the Linked Data community hangs out at the Twitter hash #LinkedData On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Luca Matteis wrote: > I tend to hang out on IRC a lot. I haven't found much info about a Linked > Data IRC channel, so I registered one on Freenode:

Re: ORCID no longer relevant?

Regarding the specific question of the orcid.org proxy returning correct http conneg results --- a must in order to be linked data "savvy" --- a couple years ago a similar observation was made of crossref.org and they remedied the situation nicely. Since a few of the people involved in ORCID

Re: Linked Data Book in Early Access Release

Is the O'Reilly site linked data "saavy?" If so, perhaps that could be used as incentive for Manning to do likewise... On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > On 5 December 2012 15:36, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >> >> >> >> On 5 December 2012 14:56, David Wood wrote: >>> >>> On

Re: Access Control Lists, Policies and Business Models

Kingsley, thanks for forwarding that post. It ranks up there with Daniel Jacobson's work w.r.t. the inherent value of keyed APIs... I believe that like other API providers, Twitter is merely realizing they can achieve better analytics over their delivery of services with more diligent access contr

Re: best practice RDF in HTML

DS for people > who keep track of written stuff. > http://www.rustprivacy.org/FunForLibrarians.pdf > > > > From: John Erickson > To: Sebastian Hellmann > Cc: public-lod ; semantic-web > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:32 AM > Subject: Re: be

Re: best practice RDF in HTML

Sebastian, is the requirement that the RDF not be *integrated* with the content of the page --- in other words, you just want to embed a "dump" of some RDF? Why not link to a RDF or TTL file? On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote: > Dear list, > What are the best practice to

Re: Datatypes with no (cool) URI

So David's solution (using PURLs) provides a bit of transparency and manageablity, but it has the disadvantage of having no official status. Maybe (probably) I'm missing something here? On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:19 AM, David Booth wrote: > Okay, then maybe a PURL would help?  purl.org now suppor

Re: Datatypes with no (cool) URI

to play, the LOC declines differently > http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91003756 and simple classes don't > exist.  I think you've hit a limit, not on Cool Uri's necessarily, but maybe > on philosophy. > > ____ > From: John Erickson

Re: Yahoo! patent 7,747,648 court case

Elaborating on what Henry said, occasionally a member of a standards organization will (a) pursue a patent on a particular technology deemed "essential" to implementing a standard and (b) wave royalties for using the patented technology, as long as such use implements the standard and remains royal

Re: redirects and relative URLs

Henry asked: > If I dereference a URL which contains a redirect to another resource, and that > resource contains relative URLs, how should the relative URLs of the returned > document be completed? With the initial URL? Or with the one given in the > Location > header (or some other header?) of t

Re: recording meetings

Brand Niemann asks: > Interesting discussion - Are we having these presentations because there is > consideration being given to licensing LOD to protect it (from what), allow > someone to make money off of it (really), or some other reason? I think it's more fundamental than that; the eGov commu

Re: CAS, DUNS and LOD (was Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW)

This is an important discussion that (I believe) foreshadows how canonical identifiers are managed moving forward. Both CAS and DUNS numbers are a good example. Consider the challenge of linking EPA data; it's easy to create a list of toxic chemicals that are common across many EPA datasets. Based

Self-star Systems (was: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...] )

Henry Story asked... > Perhaps a more scientific way to express this is within the language of > self-organising systems. There is a lot of research there which is relevant > to us. > >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_organising_systems > > I am a bit new to this area. Any books I must read?

Re: Making Linked Data Fun

This "single most powerful demo available" is an epic fail on Ubuntu 10.10 + Chrome. The most recent release of Moonlight just doesn't cut it (and shouldn't have to). Could we as a community *possibly* work towards a rich data visualization/presentation toolkit built on, say, HTML5? On Fri, Nov 1

Re: Call for Chapters: Linking Government Data

Will all due respect, as with any monograph this is a call to *contribute*; the benefits if accepted are being part of an important work. Recipients are free to not submit! On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 10/7/10 10:02 AM, David Wood wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please find

Re: New LOD Cloud

Yes, a color-by-license version was featured in the ISWC 2009 Tutorial, "Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web" http://bit.ly/bhP89P ;) On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:56 PM, John Erickson wrote: > Didn't one of the original "color-enhanced" versions of

Re: New LOD Cloud

Didn't one of the original "color-enhanced" versions of the LOD Cloud highlight by license? 2010/9/24 Egon Willighagen : > 2010/9/24 François Dongier : >> Would be nice to go a bit beyond this relatively crude categorisation. >> Enabling someone interested in, say, wine or Alabama farming, to high

Re: New LOD Cloud

I believe the coloring is based on the value of the CKAN "topic," as discussed here: http://esw.w3.org/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/CKANmetainformation So, one of: * media * geographic * lifesciences * publications (including library and museum data) * government * ecomme

Re: empirical cloud

It *does* do this; are you using e.g. Chrome? It takes a few seconds. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Juan Sequeda wrote: > Really cool > Would it be possible to know what each node is (hovering over the node). > Or could you tell us what are the 4-5 main nodes. I'm guessing DBpedia... >  Is Fo

Re: Best practice for permantently moved resources?

I realize this is a dangerous question, but...what is the cause of the change? * Has the "content" actually changed (revision), or simply moved (URI change)? * Must the content at the "old" URI go away, or can it be represented as a previous version? All of this is useful knowledge --- a form of

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

I greatly respect Jeremy's thoughts, and they may be spot-on in this case, but I urge the community to be cautious about how much weight to give this kind of "pragmatic" economics-driven argument generally as the semantic technology industry grows. Virtually every organization has -- should have!

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

RE getting "a full list of the benefits," surely if it's being discussed here, "Literals as Subjects" must be *somebody's* Real(tm) Problem and the benefits are inherent in its solution? And if it isn't, um, why is it being discussed here? ;) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Henry Story wrote: >

Re: An RDF wishlist

Karl asks, "...How does one start hacking?" Although this might be politically incorrect advice, Toby Segarin's O'Reilly book "Programming the Semantic Web" (2009) (use The Google...) is a very accessible introduction. Two caveats: Python based (which for some of us is a selling point!) and there

Re: Slightly off topic - content negotiation by language accept headers

.70) and... > > > On 23/06/2010 19:48, "John Erickson" wrote: > >> Here's how you specific your language preferences in Chrome: >> >> * In the "Customize" menu (the wrench) select "Options" > > I have no "options" u

Re: Slightly off topic - content negotiation by language accept headers

Here's how you specific your language preferences in Chrome: * In the "Customize" menu (the wrench) select "Options" * Select the "Under the Hood" tab * Scroll down-down-down to "Web Content" area * Select "Change font and language settings" * Select the "Language" tab * Add the languages of your

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

mpute-intensive. Granted, given the current closed nature of Apple, we should probably be looking for Cocoa/Objective-C based reasoners... :P John On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:36 PM, John Erickson wrote: >> Stuart, t's n

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > Ideally, I'd like a protocol such as Open URL > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_URL ), linking books on the device up to > the bibliographies of other books that also happen to be on the device. For > low CPU devices the links might

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

Stuart, t's not clear to me what you're trying to accomplish...For whom are you trying to add value? Since ePub is XHTML, it makes sense to embed metadata as RDFa. But why? Is the purpose to enhance the reading experience? Or perhaps the local collection management experience? Publishers should b

Re: Fwd: backronym proposal: Universal Resource Linker

+1 to Danbri's emphasis on LINKs, because at the end of the day linking is what it's all about! John 2010/4/18 Jiří Procházka : > Why 'URL' when it is pretty clearly defined and still significant portion of > web users don't understand it. > > I'd rather embrace 'web address' - even non-tech use

Re: Comments on Data 3.0 manifesto

Hi Kingsley! Reading between the lines, I think I grok where you are trying to go with your "manifesto." For it to be an effective, stand-alone document I think a few pieces are needed: 1. What is your GOAL? It should be clearly stated, something like, "to promote best-practices for standards-com

Re: What would you build with a web of data?

I'm going to set aside the question of problems and consider *possibilities* for a moment. I think linked open data offers profound opportunities for community-driven applications; I'll use citizen science as a specific example. I was reminded of this as I listened to this week's episode of "Mate

Re: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud

Although, if there was a way to combine linked data and Farmville, that might be a compelling application ;) On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote: > Brilliant!  Someone has too much time on their hands.  Though it is better > than becoming a terrorist and more useful than pla

Re: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud

RE Figure 1: *Finally* we have an update to the "July 2009" Web of Data diagram!!! Great work!! On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: > No, that is left for future work (as said in the paper). > > Cheers, > denny > > > On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:41, Dan Brickley wrote: > >> But I lov

Re: A question - use 301 instead of 406?

Thank you Richard for that email; I think in making this observation/asking this question you've pointed out the subtle role that the "generic document" plays, esp (from http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#r303gendocument): "...This has the advantage that clients can bookmark and further work with the

Re: Visual exploration of linked data with the Information Workbench and Microsoft Pivot

A reminder that Pivot requires: * Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 * Microsoft Window 7 (XP not supported) * Microsoft Windows Aero * Pivot only displays in English (US). Just sayin'... On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Peter Haase wrote: > Hi all, > > we would li

Re: Conneg representation equivalence

Nathan wrote: Is it correct that all representations must have consistent fragment identifiers in order to be considered equivalent? >>> A fragment identifier should not identify different things in different >>> representations. (Though it may be unrepresented in some or all of the >