[ckan-discuss] Linked Open Data star badges

Fri Dec 10 16:53:48 GMT 2010

My 2 cents is that TimBL's 5 stars are informative, but evaluation of
datasets on CKAN shouldn't be based around them. Think the two current
things are pretty solid:

  * bulk download URL (Y/N)
  * open (Y/N)

In my mind this is the bread and butter stuff when it comes to finding
and reusing data. Other stuff is interesting and important (timely,
complete, linked, etc), but being able to get hold of the stuff and
being allowed to reuse it is absolutely essential. Whether its CSV/XLS
is nowhere near as important as whether or not you can grab the stuff,
and whether or not it is open (as in opendefinition.org).

That said I wonder if we could build a plugin to 'operationalise' the
5 star system based on info that we collect? E.g. format info, URL,
etc.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Patipat Susumpow <kengggg at gmail.com> wrote:
> for those who have 0/1 star, they might need to put it on their web and
> gently ask for 'help me gain more stars', too.
>
> keng.
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:26 PM, William Waites <ww at eris.okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is a good point... Maybe these badges could go along with the
>> openness icons?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -w
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Antoine Zimmermann
>> <antoine.zimmermann at insa-lyon.fr> -----
>>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:23:36 +0100
>> From: Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann at insa-lyon.fr>
>> Subject: Re: Linked Open Data star badges
>> To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas at deri.org>
>> CC: Linked Data community <public-lod at w3.org>
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>> Michael,
>>
>>
>> Good job, I like the look of these badges.
>> However, I'm wondering: will the people who have a 0 or 1-star dataset
>> put a badge on their Web page? It's like putting a badge saying "HTML
>> page /almost/ valid: 3 errors only!"
>> In the end, I guess only the 5 star badge will be proudly displayed by
>> dataset owners.
>> Still, I think those badges have a utility, but not for the dataset
>> owners. I can imagine a web page listing existing, independent datasets
>> (such as [1]) where each row has the corresponding badge. This way, one
>> can immediately and visually determine the level of interoperability of
>> the dataset.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://esw.w3.org/DataSetRDFDumps
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> AZ.
>>
>> Le 07/12/2010 11:09, Michael Hausenblas a écrit :
>> >
>> >If you want to express your support for LOD data on your dataset Web
>> > page,
>> >you can now use the LOD badges [1] to do so. The LOD badges are based on
>> >TimBL's 5-star data scheme, which has been made available via [2].
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >       Michael
>> >
>> >[1] http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/lod-badges/
>> >[2] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
>> >
>>
>>
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