Hi Ed,
>> Maybe there could be (or is already?) a service which you could ping
>> with your VoID document URIs, which publishers could then query to see
>> who is using their stuff?
Yeah, that's how I was thinking this kind of thing might be useful.
Either that, or if the assertions about D1 and D2 were indexed in a
service like Sindice, P2 could conceivably just query for their dataset
at the end of a void:Linkset statement.
-corey
Ed Summers wrote:
> Hi Cory:
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Corey A Harper <corey.harper_at_nyu.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yes, VoID is definitely useful for a publisher P1 to publish some
> assertions that they are linking their dataset D1 with another dataset
> D2 published by publisher P2.
>
> But the question remains as to how P2 is to discover that P1 has
> published that description :-) I guess a person working at P1 sending
> an email to someone working at P2 could work ... but I was just
> wondering if something more mechanical could work at scale?
>
> Maybe there could be (or is already?) a service which you could ping
> with your VoID document URIs, which publishers could then query to see
> who is using their stuff?
>
> //Ed
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