A business value driven approach to a new L(O?)D definition

Giovanni Tummarello

Abstract:

In this short position statement, we start from the discouraging state of the “LOD” efforts and discuss a more
humble “catalyst” research approach. Moving slightly away from the concept of “Web”, the research would start
from studying successful “D Communities” - communities around data - to identify ideal candidate for first
pragmatic data interoperability “bridges” forming a new LD cloud. Just later, if possible and not as primary concern
the research would look at the O part. It is envisioned that technically, the result might be completely different from
the mechanisms envisioned in the current LOD cloud (e.g. might not use RDF, OWL and will include all sort of
exchanges including emails and manual web form submission) but the less elegant approach impact on society and
business might be enormous and ultimately a revolutionary success for Semantic Web research.

TL;DR: forget HTTP, RDF, URIS, what is the simplest thing that will unlock allow exchanges between communities that already exchange data?

Keywords: Linked Data, Data Interoperability, Open Data, Semantic Web

Submission Category: Vision Statement