Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Folks, > > as some of you might already know, the current round of funding (its > second) for the SIMILE project is scheduled to complete at the end of > May 2008. While the group is actively looking for new funding > opportunities and the future remains bright for the SIMILE project, > transitions are most dangerous for things like this mailing list that > are hosted that but don't exactly belong in the core of the project values. > > Moreover, some of the people in the team will look for new job-related > adventures somewhere else and might leave this mailing list even more > isolated than right now. > > The SIMILE project is proud of hosting the LOD mailing list but exactly > because of that, we are concerned about impacting its functionality or > its ability to expand in the future. > > For that reason, we've been looking around for alternatives to offer to > the LOD community for them to choose upon. While there are obviously > choices in public places like google or yahoo groups, Ivan Herman was > kind enough to ask inside W3C if they would be willing to host it and > they would be willing. > > The proposed mail list address would be > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > but even that is not carved in stone. > > We can solve the technicalities later. The archives will be maintained > on simile.mit.edu as long as we possibly can (along with everything else > that the simile project created), but if anybody wanted access to the > raw mbox files to provide mirror archives (or, better, initiate the new > mail list with them) I'll be more than happy to provide access to them. > > So, in short, let's all vote about the future of this mail list: > > [ ] let's move over to W3C > [ ] let's move somewhere else (please provide your suggestion if you > vote for this options) > > Thanks! > > Stefano,
Interesting timing :-) I was about to pop a mail about the LOD data space that I've setup. This instance will cover: 1. Wikis (MediaWiki) 2. Discussions (phpBB3) 3. Blogging (Wordpress) Of course, all of the data generated by the above will be Linked Data and for individuals, dereferencable via their personal URIs. I am also initialize URI for LOD <http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/lod#this> from the LOD Data Space <http://community.linkeddata.org/ods/index.html> as I've already done re. DBpedia <http://community.linkeddata.org/dataspace/organization/dbpedia#this>. Instruction mail to follow. BTW - There is a possibility that the mailing list end of things may be handled via SWEO as part of our relationship. This action item is in progress via Ivan Herman. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com _______________________________________________ Linking-open-data mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/linking-open-data
