For years, I’ve been a fairly vocal advocate for the elegance and scalability of a-posteriori reconciliation via equivalence mappings as a superior mechanism (scale-wise) to a-priori reconciliation efforts… but this started to change very rapidly once I started working for Metaweb and saw first hand how much more effective a-priori reconciliation can be, even if drastically more expensive and limiting in the data acquisition front. - Nat Torkington

wow... - Hamish MacEwan from IM

Not sure I buy the argument that linking-open-data community isn't doing a-priori reconciliation. In fact, I think an argument could be made that this is why it is taking off. - Ed Summers

This is making me think of this in terms of the issues of pre- vs. post-coordination with subject headings. Not sure if that's right or not... - Mark Matienzo