[Taxacom] The Semantic Web and LOD would allow everyone to contribute without needing a huge "ministry of truth"

[Peter DeVries]

On of the features of the semantic web and the Linked Open Data cloud is
that they allow anyone who can post markup data to a web server to
contribute.

You  simply markup your data at a particular URL and then ping the semantic
web to tell everyone that it is there.

http://pingthesemanticweb.com/

This would allow individual institutions and individuals to contribute their
own data.

Very democratic.

If you don't agree with a particular contribution then just choose to ignore
it in your analysis.

Respectfully,

- Pete

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Pete DeVries
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
445 Russell Laboratories
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
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