On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 08:53, Corey Harper <corey.harper_at_nyu.edu> wrote:
> On the other hand, the outage shows exactly why dynamic composites of data
> from disparate sources can result in broken linkages and temporarily
> incomplete views of metadata.
As opposed to completely *no* view of anything. :)
> Perhaps providing this persistence layer will be an emerging role where
> libraries can really contribute to the larger information discovery
> ecosystem.
The whole point of linked data is to take advantage of the distributed
nature of sharing that data ;
* If WikiPedia went down tomorrow, all their data is available
somewhere (in caches, in mirrors, in downloaded files, in
repositories, in strongly typed form, as linked data in other outlets,
and so on, and the web, the interactions, the inferencing and the
lookups will continue almost as before.
* If the NLA Catalog went down tomorrow, there would be nothing, and
everything would stop.
> We could become the vanguard of best practices for the selection and
> consumption of linked data for use in the development of more usable and
> more rich discovery environments.
For any linked data to become of importance, you must first solve the
puzzle of identity management. But yes, if you did this, the library
would live on forever.
Alex
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