The document is a presentation criticizing linked data and its use for data interoperability and reconciliation in museums. The presenter argues that linked data is a terrible and complex solution that does not actually solve problems or address what people care about. Instead, the presenter advocates that museums focus on human connections and telling stories with their collections and objects rather than technical data standards.

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Linked Data: Worse is Better.
David Newbury
Lead Developer, Art Tracks, Carnegie Museum of Art
@workergnome

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Linked Data
is terrible.

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I should know.

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"I'm going to make a UML of
your IIIF RDF as JSON-LD so
you can SPARQL it."

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Linked data is never the
simple solution.

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Data interoperability?
Reconciliation?
Lies.

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Linked data will not
solve your problem.

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So why are we
talking about it?

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Collections
as documents.

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Nobody cares.

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You know what
people care about?

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Themselves.

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I am not
my drivers license.

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A social network
of museum objects.

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Facebook
does linked data.

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Human connections
are what’s important.

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Telling stories is harder
than solving problems.

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Stories are the
future of museums.

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Thank you.
David Newbury
Lead Developer, Art Tracks, Carnegie Museum of Art
@workergnome