Comments for Open Knowledge Foundation Blog http://blog.okfn.org Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:31:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Announcing the Open Data Handbook version 1.0 by Danny Ayers http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/22/announcing-the-open-data-handbook-version-1-0/#comment-3807 Danny Ayers Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:31:19 +0000 http://blog.okfn.org/?p=8553#comment-3807 <p>Hmm, I could quibble about it actually being agnostic now...but I won't.</p> <p>Agreed 100% about open data not having to be linked. I think it was in a TED talk that timbl said the same - first priority being just to get the data out. In fact in his own 5 Star system I think he is perhaps a little too religious in explicitly referring to RDF and SPARQL at the 4 Star mark (one step up from publishing open CSV). This one I reckon is preferable: "use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff" http://5stardata.info/#by-example This is good practice for putting <em>any</em> material on the Web.</p> <p>Basically IMHO it would be nice to see some reference in (a future edition of) the Handbook for people to know that this was an option, even if it was only by reference to examples like the UK gov stuff.</p> Hmm, I could quibble about it actually being agnostic now…but I won’t.

Agreed 100% about open data not having to be linked. I think it was in a TED talk that timbl said the same – first priority being just to get the data out. In fact in his own 5 Star system I think he is perhaps a little too religious in explicitly referring to RDF and SPARQL at the 4 Star mark (one step up from publishing open CSV). This one I reckon is preferable: “use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff” http://5stardata.info/#by-example This is good practice for putting any material on the Web.

Basically IMHO it would be nice to see some reference in (a future edition of) the Handbook for people to know that this was an option, even if it was only by reference to examples like the UK gov stuff.

]]> Comment on Announcing the Open Data Handbook version 1.0 by Rufus Pollock http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/22/announcing-the-open-data-handbook-version-1-0/#comment-3804 Rufus Pollock Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:56:06 +0000 http://blog.okfn.org/?p=8553#comment-3804 <p>A specific decision on the first version of the handbook was to be almost entirely agnostic on the technical front.</p> <p>For version 2.0 (or even just 1.1) we could have more on this. I would also have to say that I personally don't think that open data <em>has</em> to be linked data :-) -- it is great if it is, but requiring that open data be linked data would create a fairly significant barrier to publishing open data.</p> A specific decision on the first version of the handbook was to be almost entirely agnostic on the technical front.

For version 2.0 (or even just 1.1) we could have more on this. I would also have to say that I personally don’t think that open data has to be linked data :-) — it is great if it is, but requiring that open data be linked data would create a fairly significant barrier to publishing open data.

]]> Comment on Announcing the Open Data Handbook version 1.0 by Danny Ayers http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/22/announcing-the-open-data-handbook-version-1-0/#comment-3801 Danny Ayers Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:01:09 +0000 http://blog.okfn.org/?p=8553#comment-3801 <p>Nice work! I was a little disappointed not to see any mention of Linked Data, given that this is the way the inventor of the Web recommends it's published (and there's a lot of it out there!). <a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html" rel="nofollow">Tim Berners-Lee's Design Issue</a>, <a href="http://linkeddata.org/" rel="nofollow">linkeddata.org</a>, <a href="http://5stardata.info/" rel="nofollow">"5 Star" data</a>.</p> Nice work! I was a little disappointed not to see any mention of Linked Data, given that this is the way the inventor of the Web recommends it’s published (and there’s a lot of it out there!). Tim Berners-Lee’s Design Issue, linkeddata.org, “5 Star” data.

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