Linked Data Liminal Zones « Lost Boy

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Linked Data Liminal Zones

One of the things that has interested me for some time now is how RDF and Linked Data enables communities to enrich information published by organizations, e.g. by annotating it with additional properties and relationships (links). This is after all, one of the intended goals of the technology: to make it easier for people to converge on common names for things and collectively share data about those things.

The ability to publish URIs for things, and then have those URIs decorated by a motivated community with additional metadata, provides organizations with an interesting way to take advantage of Linked Data. The enriched data can be reused by the organization to improve its own datasets and used to drive improved processes, new product development, etc.

The interesting angle is that while both the organization and the community directly benefits from the sharing (both gain access to data they wouldn’t have normally, or at least without extra expense) there are some asymmetries in the relationship. Specifically, an organization worried about ...

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http://www.ldodds.com/blog/2009/11/linked-data-liminal-zones/

http://www.ldodds.com/blog/2009/11/linked-data-liminal-zones/