Sorry, not the w3c at all, but otherwise still relevant.
And I should cite the source through which I stumbled upon this, which
was the recent IEEE Internet Computing article, "Exploiting Linked Data
to Build Web Applications."
Unfortunately, it's behind a pay wall...
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MIC.2009.79
Corey A Harper wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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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