So here's a couple of questions for those of you on the list who have
implemented Linked Data tools, applications, services, etc:
* Do you rely on or require HTTP 303 redirects in your application? Or
does your app just follow the redirect?
For sindice - no we do not rely on or require them, merely follow.
* Would your application tool/service/etc break or generic inaccurate
data if Ian's pattern was used to publish Linked Data.
It wouldn't break sindice.
However... with regard to publishing ontologies, we could expect
additional overhead if same content is delivered on retrieving different
Resources for example http://example.com/schema/latitude and
http://example.com/schema/longitude . In such a case ETag could be used
to suggest the contents are identical, but not sure that is a practical
solution. I expect that without 303 it will be more difficult in
particular to publish and process ontologies.
Rob.
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Robert Fuller
Research Associate
Sindice Team
DERI, Galway
http://sindice.com/
