The biggest folly imho is this idea of "let's cram every domain into #ActivityStreams somehow". Flatten everything and project it onto this small set of social primitives that AS defines.
It is once more a choice of pragmatism: "Hey, I've seen it working with Mastodon, so I copied that. And #LinkedData extension mechanism is a handwaved horror show".
So understandable perhaps that we did it. But now we must overcome this trend which has taken stubborn root and drags the ecosystem down.
It does not need to be that way. I am quite happy after all (after being initially frustrated) by how #ATProto has disrupted things, and opened the eyes of devs in the #ActivityPub ecosystem that we must act or lose out (stay niche, which may be fine too) to the Atmoshpere and how it enables devs to focus on service and product delivery instead of low-level wire plumbing and continuous breakages.
ATProto also shows the way that we can now follow on the #fediverse to catch up again: cocreate a similar robust basis for people to build on. #Bluesky had the advantage of a greenfield start and dedicated team unburdened by past decisions. And they build this whole Lexicon system and ways to introspect functionality.
We can do that too, solve the #LinkedData conundrum, and create an extensibility mechanism that allows devs to focus on service modeling. The more introspection this mechanism allows for, the less design-by-consensus is required, easing expansion to new domains.
The fediverse has been weirdly stuck for many years, driven by app developers who attended first and foremost to their own app projects and only secondary to the technology base the entire app is built upon. There was also hardly funding to do anything else. It may be pragmatic approach, but its not smart, eventually weakening the entire ecosystem. And here we are today, with a mountain of protocol decay and tech debt holding us back.
For many years people, me included, have argued that we should focus on getting robust extensibility mechanisms in place, fill the #ActivityPub holes, and not handwave it to say "yeah it is #LinkedData this and that sorta kinda". #Interoperability requires way more rigour at the protocol level.
Nice effect that #ATProto had, was it opened people's eyes to the benefits of having a sound technology base. The ATProto ecosystems excites newcomers, whereas fedi only frustrates with its high barrier to entry and whack-a-mole dev.
European EdTech's real competitive advantage: the EU's semantic infrastructure.
ELM, ESCO, EQF, ELI — publicly funded, open, machine-readable ontologies no other region matches. Only JSON-LD W3C-VC integrates this natively via linked data.
A Spanish credential understood by a German HR system — not through manual mapping, but through shared ontologies via URIs.
Marginalise W3C-VC = marginalise what makes EU EdTech distinctive globally.
Only JSON-LD W3C-VC supports semantic interoperability natively via linked data.
@context allows every property to link to an ontology via resolvable URIs. A machine can determine that a Spanish architect qualification and a German Berufsqualifikation refer to the same profession — without bilateral mapping.
SD-JWT VC and mdoc transport data. W3C-VC transports meaning.
The Commission chose W3C-VC for DC4EU because education required it.
My body is a machine that turns Biology into SHACL shapes.
Weil der Tab noch offen war, habe ich heute den Vortrag von @stk »Entzaubert #generativeKI… warum der Staat auf #LinkedData setzen sollte statt auf IT-Alchemie« rezipiert.
➡️ https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-99-entzaubert-generative-ki-warum-der-staat-auf-linked-data-setzen-sollte-statt-auf-it-alchemie #Guckempfehlung!
Dass ich das vor Monaten schonmal tat, hatte ich völlig vergessen – nicht aber Standpunkte und Herleitungen, wie ich jetzt im Rückblick auf die neulich engagiert geführte Diskussion für #LinkedOpenData mit einem von „recherchierender“ #KI begeistertem Gegenüber feststelle…
Kleines Experiment mit LLM + Wikidata:
> liste alle Bundeskanzler der SPD
1. Mit Wikidata Skill welcher Abfrage generiert: https://opncd.ai/share/o2An3wCF
2. Ohne Wikidata-Skill, reine LLM Halluzination: https://opncd.ai/share/l8k9QHcV
1. liefert korrekte Ergebnisse mit tagesgenauen Angaben zur Kanzlerschaft
2. behauptet Olaf Scholz sei bis heute Bundeskanzler, liefert nur Jahreszahlen und ein paar ungefragte Hintergrundinfos
Skosmos 3.1. has been released!
This is a minor release that takes the first steps towards implementing the new Skosmos in finto.fi . Among the improvements, this adds support for some SKOS features like better handling of collections, ordered property values, and deprecated concepts. It also improves the search result page, and makes it easier to deploy Skosmos with Docker.
More information on the recent changes on GitHub https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosmos/releases/tag/v3.1
Call for Workshops – ISWC 2026
Don’t forget to send your workshop proposal, you have just over 24 hours to submit! ⏰
Details & submission guidelines: https://lnkd.in/dZQzfhBk
Please share with colleagues and networks who may be interested!
#ISWC2026 #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #LinkedData #AIResearch #Workshops
The February 2026 release of the Between Our Worlds dataset with anime metadata is available now! https://
betweenourworlds.org
#linkeddata #rdf #opendata #anime #metadata
A new snapshot release of the #dblp data set has been published. #opendata #linkeddata #knowledgegraph
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/collection/dblp
https://doi.org/10.4230/dblp.rdf.ntriples
https://doi.org/10.4230/dblp.xml
… controlled English-language subject headings and thesauri, such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). In much of the cataloging for items in languages not written in Roman script, Englishlanguage subject access provides insufficient description of the content to ensure the retrieval of the item."
#librarycatalogues #search #nonlatinscripts #linkeddata
With the latest PodOS release, we are taking a big leap towards modularity and extensibility. You can now dynamically load Solid Data Modules to add new features to the core system.
https://pod-os.org/blog/2026/01/28/podos-202601-adds-dynamic-module-loading/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@janvlug/114483272180796821
En er is een zesde provincie bij op #Mastodon: @provinciedrenthe
Al sinds 2025-10-16, maar toch nog welkom!
Zie hier een kaartje, gebaseerd op #wikidata:
📣 ISWC 2026 Call for Papers, Submissions Open!
ISWC 2026 welcomes contributions on knowledge graphs, ontologies, RDF & SPARQL, reasoning & rules, SHACL/validation, semantic data integration, interoperability, entity linking, KG construction, provenance & trust, and more.
⏰ Abstract deadline: 2 May 2026 (AoE)
⏰ Paper deadline: 7 May 2026 (AoE)
https://iswc2026.semanticweb.org/#/
📍 Bari, Italy 🇮🇹, please repost to help reach potential authors!
"From Linked Open Data to Collections as Data: A Reproducible Framework Using Federated Queries"
https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v44i4.17432
#LinkedData #LinkedOpenData #libraries #collections
Eindelijk: @kbnationalebibliotheek en universiteitsbibliotheken krijgen subsidie voor 'Materialiteit als Data'. Ik pleit er al jaren voor om informatie over o.a. boekbanden en gebruik(ers) van oude boeken (tussen circa 1450 en 1840) gestandaardiseerd op te nemen in catalogi van bibliotheken (en inventarissen van archieven).
ResearchSpace è una piattaforma pensata per chi lavora con conoscenza complessa: grafi semantici, contesti, relazioni, provenance.
Usata da musei e archivi per raccontare non solo gli oggetti, ma le storie che li collegano.
