linked data: worse is better

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Linked Data: Worse is Better.David NewburyLead Developer, Art Tracks, Carnegie Museum of Art@workergnome

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Linked Datais terrible.

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I should know.

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"I'm going to make a UML of your IIIF RDF as JSON-LD so you can SPARQL it."

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Linked data is never the simple solution.

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Data interoperability?Reconciliation?

Lies.

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Linked data will not solve your problem.

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So why are wetalking about it?

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Collectionsas documents.

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Nobody cares.

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You know what people care about?

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Themselves.

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I am notmy drivers license.

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A social networkof museum objects.

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Facebookdoes linked data.

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Human connectionsare what’s important.

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Telling stories is harder than solving problems.

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Stories are thefuture of museums.

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Thank you.David NewburyLead Developer, Art Tracks, Carnegie Museum of Art@workergnome