On Feb 6, 2025, at 11:16 AM, Hisham Makki <00000182be7025e3-dmarc-request_at_lists.clir.org> wrote:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates/PeopleForBookDisplays
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>> stuart
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> Well, I have learned something new today. Thank you for sharing your experience.
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> Hisham
I concur for a few reasons. Stuart's post:
* articulated a problem to be addressed, investigations
were done, a solution was brought to light, the
solution was shared with the wider community, and we
all benefited; thank you
* our world overflows with one-to-many relationships;
as a data structure, Linked Data is more complicated
than rudimentary matrixes with their limiting
one-to-one relationships; Linked Data is more
representative of the way we describe our world
* SPARQL really is a whole lot like SQL but not exactly;
when you learn one can you easily learn the other
Linked Data and the Semantic Web are often seen as solutions looking for a problem, but Stuart articulated a problem he addressed with a solution. I, myself, have literally published thousands of Linked Data files containing hundreds of triples. Some of these files are even interconnected with WikiData, but I have yet to come up with a killer application taking advantage of this work.
Kudos!
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Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Thu Feb 06 2025 - 13:59:22 EST