LOS on data.networkedplanet.com opines that http://data.norge.no could be better and outlines some principles as guidance to making it or similar effort better.
Sorry, Networked Planet Blog = Graham Moore and/or Kal Ahmed to most of the topic map regulars.
I am not real sure what LOS stands for…, loan origination solution perhaps? A quick search gives 3.5 million “hits” so I am not going to try to sort it out. Maybe Networked Planet will clear up that mystery in an upcoming post.
I would be more concerned with publication of identifiers, along with when those identifiers should be applied to particular subjects (read properties) than insuring that all identifiers be URLs but then if one is playing to the Semantic Web niche market I suppose that is good advice.
It was just the other day that I mentioned the 100+ million non-URL identifiers that are nearly universally used in chemistry and related fields. I am on the look out for similar, curated sets of identifiers so please post, oh, you know, there is that German publisher that curates chemical structures as search criteria as well. I will go run them down for later this week.
More on the issue of identifier advice to follow.
Patrick I have updated the post to provide some more information on what LOS is and where it is hosted. I should point out that it is not data.norge.no who could do better in how they publish data as they are just a repository for metadata about the data sets. It is the organisations linked to from data.norge.no who could look at how they are exposing data and do it better.
In general we are just aiming to help people get something on the web that is of high quality in terms of identity and representation.
There are a lot of people who use the LOS terms and yet they don’t have consistant identifiers. These terms have no implied or expressed semantic beyond the term name and where they sit in a taxonomy. Thus some form of identifier is a really useful addition as they have no further properties by which they can be identified.
Comment by Graham Moore — March 4, 2011 @ 5:28 am