Slides from a keynote presentation from the 2015 LITA Forum.

1. TO HELL WITH
GOOD INTENTIONS
LINKED DATA, COMMUNITY AND THE POWER
TO NAME
MX A. MATIENZO / @ANARCHIVIST
LITA FORUM, 14 NOVEMBER 2015

2. PERSONAL GRAPH
http://matienzo.org/#me
foaf:name
“Mx A. Matienzo”
foaf:based_near
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Brooklyn
owl:sameAs
http://sws.geonames.org/5110302/
rdf:type
dbpedia-owl:Place
foaf:depiction

3. CONTEXT

5. HOW AM I READ?

6. http://www.themaneater.com/special-sections/mu-fall-2015/

7. TO HELL WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.
… YOU WILL NOT HELP ANYBODY
BY YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS.
Ivan Illich
“A THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT”

8. http://tressiemc.com/2015/11/12/fascism/

10. NAMING: WHERE
POWER IS KEPT

11. NAMING IS THE ACT OF BESTOWING A NAME,
OF LABELLING, OF CREATING AN IDENTITY. IT
IMPOSES A PATTERN ON THE WORLD THAT IS
MEANINGFUL TO THE NAMER.
Hope Olson, The Power to Name
NAMING AS ACT

12. NAMING CONSTRUCTS
REALITY

13. BUT SHARED
NAMING HAS VALUE

14. LINKED DATA AS
NAMING PRACTICE

15. NOT ALL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE THE ABILITY TO
PROMOTE THEIR URL VIA OTHER MEDIA. ONE OF
THE MYTHS OF OUR DIGITAL DEMOCRACY IS
THAT WHAT RISES TO THE TOP OF THE PILE IS
WHAT IS MOST POPULAR.
Safiya Umoja Noble,“Missed Connections: What
Search Engines Say About Women”
LINKED DATA AS SEO

16. LINKED DATA AS NAMING
PRACTICE:
DISTRIBUTING POWER?

17. TO HELL WITH
LINKED DATA…?

18. SIMPLE TOOLS
http://twinery.org/
http://discontents.com.au/small-stories-in-a-big-data-world/

19. THE COST OF
CENTRALIZATION

20. http://archivingpoliceviolence.org/

21. http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/

22. https://cirn.wikispaces.com/

23. THANK YOU
@anarchivst
http://matienzo.org/