On 2014-08-18 11:06, Christian Bizer wrote:
So we don’t plan to push a specific message with the diagram, but I agree with you that the release of the diagram could be a good occasion for the community to discuss the possible messages/conclusions that one could draw from it and I would be happy if more people would comment on this.
Even if there is no explicit message, there is one due to the diagram's history. The current diagram that's about to be released is not a continuation of the 2011 diagram. However, it comes across as such, since the diagram has the same presentation. I am not making a case whether one or the other is more appropriate for the purpose it is trying to fulfil, but that there is a clear distinction between the information underneath and that deserves extra attention.
Personally, I think it is quite interesting to compare the deployment of Microdata/RDFa/Microformats and Linked Data on the Web. We also investigated the deployment of Microdata/RDFa/Microformats [1][2] and the comparison currently looks like this:
Why list RDFa along with Micro*? More importantly, why remove it from the other "first-class" Linked Data?
Thus, it makes sense that we see Linked Data adoption within communities that have an interest in making their data easy to use and thus are willing to invest effort into this, like libraries, government and science (with life science and language processing being the first communities adopting the technologies) and social networking.
You do not truly believe that, do you? If you thought that Linked Data was a worthwhile effort, you would be delivering the research/science behind the updated diagram document as such in a machine-friendly manner.
The question is, why are you not publishing your science using the available Linked Data stack?
This are my two cents to the overall discussion and I would be very happy to hear what others think about the message that can be drawn from the new diagram.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2014Jul/0143.html awaits your kind reply.
-Sarven http://csarven.ca/#i
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