Hi Ed,
In re: to
> Which raises an interesting point: how are we supposed to be able to
> track the use of our Linked Data resources?
I was just reading about voiD, the Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets,
which seems to be designed for exactly this purpose. As more and more
linked-data is deployed on the web, it seems the W3C has been thinking
about the need to describe data sets, both in terms of availability and
linkages.
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/VoiD
Cheers,
-Corey
Ed Summers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Ross Singer <rossfsinger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rather than being an issue of credibility, I would say the biggest
>> reason that id.loc.gov is getting relatively little use is because the
>> communities that it's designed for aren't using it: �libraries.
>
> While we haven't really seen a great deal of people publishing RDF
> data that use URIs from id.loc.gov yet, we are seeing a modest amount
> of web1.0 users searching LCSH via the search form:
>
> http://bit.ly/1MzHYc
>
> That's just searches by people per day, not requests in general, or
> bots. It's hard to imagine anyone other than library folks searching
> LCSH. Granted, this isn't going to break any server request world
> records. However it does show that there is some interest (increasing
> if you squint right) in having LCSH available on the web, even in this
> rudimentary form.
>
> There have been a few little pockets of interest in using id.loc.gov
> URIs in RDF. The W3C Semantic Web Use Cases documents, which use LCSH
> to characterize the subject of their studies [1]. For example
>
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/NRK/
>
> which is RDFa that can be translated to RDF/XML:
>
> http://bit.ly/bTx93
>
> I only heard about this because the editor for the Use Case documents
> let me know via email. Which raises an interesting point: how are we
> supposed to be able to track the use of our Linked Data resources? It
> would seem that web server logs ought to be able to be used somehow
> ... but so far there doesn't seem to be an established pattern for
> letting someone else know you are using their resources. It would be
> neat to come up with some convention for letting a server know you are
> binding to one of its URIs. Perhaps by doing a GET with the REFERER
> set appropriately to the subject URI in the assertion.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/
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Received on Sun Nov 15 2009 - 23:00:20 EST