Thanks for sharing I wrote about Swedish runestones people that in 1750 wrote books with
identifiers we still use today
* Structured data for
GLAM-Wiki/Roundtripping/KMB<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Structured_d…
* I will mention this in my LD4
session<https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/2021ld4conf/sessions/sessi…
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* Feels sad that things that already 1750 was obvious is missed in a project like
Europeana<http://minancestry.blogspot.com/2020/03/carl-larsson-who-is-th…
and no one one except en:Wikipedia start complaining....
Regards,
Magnus
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From: Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung(a)oclc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 8:51 PM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikidata] Re: [External] On the subject of Linked Data Availability and
Retention
This reminds me a bit of Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project.
https://kottke.org/tag/Ted%20Nelson
From: Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 12:33 PM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [External] [Wikidata] On the subject of Linked Data Availability and Retention
Hi Community!
We often act like and think that things are, well ... forever (even our own lives!). But
Time waits for no one. So...
I had posted this over in the LD4 Slack channel but thought that this would be good for
folks here to at least always be aware of and think about in our growing Linked Data
world.
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All Linked Data efforts need stable identifiers (on both ends of a "link").
I.E. linking is only good if the other side will be retrievable and available (online or
offline through web/archives/files) throughout the expected lifetime of an effort and
beyond. Think closely about "knowledge retention" (libraries/books hold
knowledge for hundreds of years!) and what the Linked Data lifecycle itself that ideally
will do that for your projects. Then look towards not the tools, but instead the
communities that are well established and have the likelihood to continue to provide
stable identifiers that are retrievable well into the future + another 100+ years. This
might include government efforts, or communities that have foundations behind them that
are well grounded through philanthropic means with perpetuity ... to avoid link rot or
non-retrievability through complete void of the knowledge or stable identifiers in the
future.
I'm hopeful that communities will think about data retention policies and generally
"Linked Data Availability" much more deeply and seriously. This could be
likened to something like GitHub's Arctic Vault, Internet Archive, or decentralized
storage solutions like Filecoin, to be able to backup and retain the knowledge for
thousands of years, if need be.
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Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
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