To Whom It May Concern

A nice tweet from Phil Archer (@philarcher1) this morning reminded me of a "triple tweet" I posted earlier this year on the topic of creating data and metadata To Whom It May Concern ('a formal salutation used for opening a letter to an unknown recipient' source Wikipedia)

So, here's Phil's tweet quoting Sharon Dawes (@ssdawes):

Metadata should support users you don't know - what a great line from Sharon Dawes at #pmod
— Phil Archer (@philarcher1) June 20, 2012

And here is my "triple tweet" on a what I see as one of the core values of Linked Data:

Facilitating the use of data for people you don't know, who you may never meet. #LinkedData
— Kerstin Forsberg (@kerfors) February 14, 201

Reusable data is published without prior agreement by or coordination of data consumer. #LinkedData
— Kerstin Forsberg (@kerfors) February 14, 2012

Future unknown stakeholders can benfit from the availability of shared data. #LinkedData
— Kerstin Forsberg (@kerfors) February 14, 2012

I posted them after I had the pleasure to meet David Wood (@prototypo) and Berndette Hyland (@BernHyland) F2F in a Linked Data and URI workshop in Boston in late January:

Hat tip for previous tweets on the value of #LinkedData to @BernHyland @prototypo
— Kerstin Forsberg (@kerfors) February 14, 2012