Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
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> So I don't think it's in the free web in general that this kind of
> technology will show it's promise: It's instead in the kind of
> _controlled_ data that we specialize in, allowing controlled data to
> be easily remixed and re-used in novel ways by third parties, opening
> up our data (and isn't that what libraries are about) and enabling
> synergistic innovation.
Hear, hear! Once you start looking at the semantic web as being pockets
of somewhat controlled metadata, it becomes less utopian and more a real
possibility. The map of linked data at http://linkeddata.org/ shows
dozens of sources of metadata that has enough structure and control to
be useful in this environment.
Trick question: What community has a s**tload of controlled metadata but
isn't on the map? Libraries! Library metadata could become the canonical
bibliographic metadata on the web, if we could only get it onto the web
instead of locked up in databases. Oh, and if we only could assert our
"right" to expose our metadata in that way.
kc
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