[OpenGLAM] Fwd: There's No Money in Linked Data

Sat May 18 20:25:50 UTC 2013

..forwarded from the W3C Public LOD List. Also relevant for OpenGLAM.

best,
Johan
@johanoomen

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From: Pascal Hitzler <pascal.hitzler at wright.edu>
Date: 2013/5/18
Subject: There's No Money in Linked Data
To: public-lod at w3.org

We just finished a piece indicating serious legal issues regarding the
commercialization of Linked Data - this may be of general interest, hence
the post. We hope to stimulate discussions on this issue (hence the
provokative title).

Available from
http://knoesis.wright.edu/**faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.**pdf<http://knoesis.wright.edu/faculty/pascal/pub/nomoneylod.pdf>

Abstract.
Linked Data (LD) has been an active research area for more than 6 years and
many aspects about publishing, retrieving, linking, and cleaning Linked
Data have been investigated. There seems to be a broad and general
agreement that in principle LD datasets can be very useful for solving a
wide variety of problems ranging from practical industrial analytics to
highly specific research problems. Having these notions in mind, we started
exploring the use of notable LD datasets such as DBpedia, Freebase,
Geonames and others for a commercial application. However, it turns out
that using these datasets in realistic settings is not always easy.
Surprisingly, in many cases the underlying issues are not technical but
legal barriers erected by the LD data publishers. In this paper we argue
that these barriers are often not justified, detrimental to both data
publishers and users, and are often built without much consideration of
their consequences.

Authors:
Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Chitra Venkatramani

-- 
Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler
Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
pascal at pascal-hitzler.de   http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/
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