URIs are the digital brand insignia.
Basically, the size of the brand emblem is shrinking, but the opportunity space is increasing exponentially, courtesy of Linked Data density.

For example, traditional media (TV, Radio, Newspapers) will feel lots of pain on the traditional media side (GIANT emblems such as TV screens, Radios, and Newspaper) but once they realize there is a natural (and relative) “master-details” relationship in play, exploitable within the Web (courtesy of Linked Data), they will get with the program — as demonstrated by Calais effort.

“Units of context” separated by quality associated with URIs is how this will eventually play out (enterprise and personal fronts) market and economy wise.

Kingsley

URIs are the digital brand insignia.
Basically, the size of the brand emblem is shrinking, but the opportunity space is increasing exponentially, courtesy of Linked Data density.

For example, traditional media (TV, Radio, Newspapers) will feel lots of pain on the traditional media side (GIANT emblems such as TV screens, Radios, and Newspaper) but once they realize there is a natural (and relative) “master-details” relationship in play, exploitable within the Web (courtesy of Linked Data), they will get with the program — as demonstrated by Calais effort.

“Units of context” separated by quality associated with URIs is how this will eventually play out (enterprise and personal fronts) market and economy wise.

Kingsley

URIs are the digital brand insignia.

Basically, the size of the brand emblem is shrinking, but the opportunity space is increasing exponentially courtesy of Linked Data density.

For example traditional media (TV, Radio, Newspapers) will feel lots of pain on the traditional media side (GIANT emblems such as TV screens, Radios, and Newspaper) but once they realize there is a natural (and relative) \master-details\ relationship exploitable within the Web (courtesy of Linked Data), they will get with the program, as demonstrated by Calais already

Units of \context\ separated by quality, exposed by URIs is how this will eventually play out (enterprise and personal fronts).

Kingsley

URIs are the digital brand insignia.

Basically, the size of the brand emblem is shrinking, but the opportunity space is increasing exponentially courtesy of Linked Data density.

For example traditional media (TV, Radio, Newspapers) will feel lots of pain on the traditional media side (GIANT emblems such as TV screens, Radios, and Newspaper) but once they realize there is a natural (and relative) master-details relationship exploitable within the Web (courtesy of Linked Data), they will get with the program, as demonstrated by Calais already

Units of context separated by quality, exposed by URIs is how this will eventually play out (enterprise and personal fronts).

Kingsley

You win the prize. Your point is fundamental to some of the underlying strategy behind Calais. We have an exploding universe of content – from content publishers like Thomson Reuters to user generated content to social media to …

People want to make decisions, gain insights and understand context using all of it – but the trust you can put into different content sources varies wildly. So – if we can gain interoperability using (Calais + Thomson Reuters Data + Linked Data Cloud + Other content assets) – we set the stage to empower users to bring *everything* together for the task at hand.

Professionals trust Thomson Reuters content – so we’re confident we’ll have a role to play in all that. In fact – as we’re part of the trusted content universe then the more content the better.

Make sense?

Regards,

Tom

You win the prize. Your point is fundamental to some of the underlying strategy behind Calais. We have an exploding universe of content – from content publishers like Thomson Reuters to user generated content to social media to …

People want to make decisions, gain insights and understand context using all of it – but the trust you can put into different content sources varies wildly. So – if we can gain interoperability using (Calais + Thomson Reuters Data + Linked Data Cloud + Other content assets) – we set the stage to empower users to bring *everything* together for the task at hand.

Professionals trust Thomson Reuters content – so we’re confident we’ll have a role to play in all that. In fact – as we’re part of the trusted content universe then the more content the better.

Make sense?

Regards,

Tom

“The message for enterprises should be more along the lines of: mesh relevant internal data with external data, and where you see economic value, publish.”

Exactly – which is where I was going with

“We have an annoying tendency to view data in our databases as an indivisible mass, vigorously and unthinkingly applying the same (expensive) protections to an uninteresting and low-value factoid of underlying context as we do to the core attributes of our next big lead.”

Paul