On Feb 6, 2025, at 11:16 AM, Hisham Makki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Stuartyeates/PeopleForBookDisplays
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>> stuart
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> Well, I have learned something new today. Thank you for sharing your experience.
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> Hisham


I concur for a few reasons. Stuart's post:

  * articulated a problem to be addressed, investigations
    were done, a solution was brought to light, the
    solution was shared with the wider community, and we
    all benefited; thank you

  * our world overflows with one-to-many relationships;
    as a data structure, Linked Data is more complicated
    than rudimentary matrixes with their limiting
    one-to-one relationships; Linked Data is more
    representative of the way we describe our world

  * SPARQL really is a whole lot like SQL but not exactly;
    when you learn one can you easily learn the other

Linked Data and the Semantic Web are often seen as solutions looking for a problem, but Stuart articulated a problem he addressed with a solution. I, myself, have literally published thousands of Linked Data files containing hundreds of triples. Some of these files are even interconnected with WikiData, but I have yet to come up with a killer application taking advantage of this work.

Kudos!

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Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame