Re: Dealing with distributed nature of Linked Data and SPARQL

2016-06-08 Thread David Booth
a best practice. I just meant to caution that named graphs may not *fully* solve the problem. But they are the best starting point, IMO. David Booth

Re: Close to spam (was Re: [CfP] Reminder: Submit to ISWC2016 Doctoral Consortium!)

2016-05-19 Thread David Booth
Wow, that is strict, given that ISWC is clearly relevant to all of the lists below. David Booth On 05/19/2016 11:24 AM, Phil Archer wrote: Miel, Thank you for including [CfP] - that's helpful and this is clearly a relevant event. But you have sent this to www-rdf-inter...@w3.org www-rdf-lo

Re: Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

2015-09-04 Thread David Booth
), or use JSON-LD Framing, which has not been fully standardized, and has many missing features and bugs. I think we need to work more on the Framing, so that RDF can be more than just a publication format. +1 I think that would be quite helpful. David Booth

Re: Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

2015-09-03 Thread David Booth
application with the specific serialization that it requires. All of the major RDF tool sets have converters that can read one RDF serialization and write another. David Booth On 09/03/2015 01:53 PM, Martynas Jusevičius wrote: With due respect, I think it would be foolish to burn the bridges

Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

2015-09-03 Thread David Booth
updates, we will quietly thank RDF/XML for its faithful service and mark it as deprecated. David Booth

Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?

2015-09-03 Thread David Booth
Hi Jeff, This certainly sounds like something that others may want to use. Is it on github? What license? Thanks! David Booth On 09/03/2015 11:05 AM, Jeff Mixter wrote: Frans, I had the same problem a few months ago and wrote a very simple server side Python script (using the rdflib

Re: Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

2015-09-03 Thread David Booth
Hi John, I can appreciate the value of RDF/XML for certain processing tasks, and I'm okay with keeping RDF/XML alive as a *processing* format. My suggestion to deprecate RDF/XML was intended to apply to its use as a *publishing* format. Thanks, David Booth On 09/03/2015 03:52 PM, John

Re: Survey on Faceted Browsers for RDF data ?

2015-04-21 Thread David Booth
everything Anzo now, so I don't know which Anzo has the faceted browsing capability. :) David Booth On 01/25/2015 02:08 PM, Christian Morbidoni wrote: Thank you all for the replies and the useful info. I'll go trough all of them asap and will bother you again if I have some question :-) best

Re: How do you explore a SPARQL Endpoint?

2015-02-04 Thread David Booth
. # # Line 20: In this example there were no root classes, i.e., # classes whose instances never appear in the object position, # but if there had been, then each would have been marked # with an asterisk. ]] David Booth On 02/04/2015 03:49 PM, Michael F Uschold wrote: Sorry, ignore priore email

Re: URIs within URIs

2014-08-23 Thread David Booth
On 08/22/2014 11:44 AM, Luca Matteis wrote: Dear LOD community, I'm wondering whether there has been any research regarding the idea of having URIs contain an actual URI, that would then resolve information about what the linked dataset states about the input URI. That is the technique used

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread David Booth
Recommended reading would be Cool URIs for the Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/ In spite of the advice in that document, people can and sometimes do use the same URI for both the real world entity (such as a zebra) and the document that describes that zebra. Doing so may be

Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?

2014-07-10 Thread David Booth
On 07/10/2014 10:42 PM, Mike Bergman wrote: Hi All, I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such. I don't know if this is quite

Re: What happened to my trusted Turtle validator and converter?

2014-05-06 Thread David Booth
The W3C Validator is also obsolete because it does not read Turtle. It only reads RDF/XML, which IMO should be discouraged. David On 05/06/2014 11:12 AM, Martynas Jusevičius wrote: Phil, AFAIK, none of the validators on that list take large enough user input both as RDF/XML and Turtle, as

Re: Princeton WordNet RDF

2014-04-16 Thread David Booth
As an aside, whenever it is convenient to do so, I would strongly suggest migrating from RDF/XML to Turtle as the default published RDF format, for better public relations and human readability. Historically, RDF/XML has caused quite a lot of misunderstanding of RDF among software developers

Re: Inference for error checking [was Re: How to avoid that collections break relationships]

2014-04-06 Thread David Booth
usefulness. I don't have a strong opinion on that. David peter On 04/03/2014 03:12 PM, David Booth wrote: First of all, my sincere apologies to Pat, Peter and the rest of the readership for totally botching my last example, writing domain when I meant range *and* explaining it wrong. Sorry

Re: Inference for error checking [was Re: How to avoid that collections break relationships]

2014-04-03 Thread David Booth
: On Mar 31, 2014, at 10:31 AM, David Booth da...@dbooth.org wrote: On 03/30/2014 03:13 AM, Pat Hayes wrote: [ , . . ] What follows from knowing that ppp schema:domainIncludes ccc . ? Suppose you know this and you also know that x ppp y . Can you infer x rdf:type ccc? I presume not, since

Inference for error checking [was Re: How to avoid that collections break relationships]

2014-03-31 Thread David Booth
On 03/30/2014 03:13 AM, Pat Hayes wrote: [ , . . ] What follows from knowing that ppp schema:domainIncludes ccc . ? Suppose you know this and you also know that x ppp y . Can you infer x rdf:type ccc? I presume not, since the domain might include other stuff outside ccc. So, what *can* be

Re: Is the same video but in different encodings the owl:sameAs?

2013-12-05 Thread David Booth
On 12/05/2013 09:49 AM, Damian Steer wrote: On 5 Dec 2013, at 13:52, Thomas Steiner to...@google.com wrote: Dear Public-LOD, Thank you all for your very helpful replies. Following your joint arguments, owl:sameAs is _not_ an option then. You could use dc:hasFormat to link them: A related

Re: RDF data archives

2013-12-05 Thread David Booth
Hi Michel, On 12/05/2013 07:05 PM, Michel Dumontier wrote: Hi all, As you may know, Bio2RDF produces RDF dumps of its RDF datasets [1,2]. For each dataset, we generate a dataset description file (as per [3]; example [4]) that is in n-triples format, while the dataset is comprised of one or

Re: Dumb SPARQL query problem

2013-11-23 Thread David Booth
Hi Hugh, A little correction and a further question . . . On 11/23/2013 10:17 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: Pleasure. Actually, I found this: http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/3530/sparql-query-filtering-by-string I said it is a pig’s breakfast because you never know what the RDF publisher

Re: Dumb SPARQL query problem

2013-11-23 Thread David Booth
On 11/23/2013 12:21 PM, Andy Seaborne wrote: On 23/11/13 17:01, David Booth wrote: Hi Hugh, A little correction and a further question . . . On 11/23/2013 10:17 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: Pleasure. Actually, I found this: http://answers.semanticweb.com/questions/3530/sparql-query-filtering

Re: AW: Which datatype to use for time intervals

2013-11-12 Thread David Booth
On 11/12/2013 10:42 AM, Svensson, Lars wrote: . . . my:event ex:tookPlaceDuring 2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z^^some:datatype . # The interval is an ISO 8601 expression for from-to Is there any known datatype I can use for some:datatype in the example above? I want to keep it

Re: Simple WebID, WebID+TLS Protocol, and ACL Dogfood Demo

2013-08-10 Thread David Booth
On 8/9/13 8:34 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: The protected resource will show you where the acl (meta) data is with the header rel=meta I thought the consensus was: rel=acl I guess, we are just going to have to support both, to be safe . Surely

Re: best practice in assigning URIs to individuals

2013-08-07 Thread David Booth
Milorad, You should mint the URIs in your own namespace. You should only mint URIs within a URI space that: (a) you own; or (b) you have been authorized by the owner to use for minting URIs. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-ownership Minting URIs in someone else's URI space without

Re: URLs in Data Working Draft

2013-07-11 Thread David Booth
distinctions are a pointless waste of time -- like debating the number of angels that can dance on a pin. To others, those same distinctions are essential! Important! And must be debated to the end of the earth! David On 07/11/2013 06:20 PM, David Wood wrote: Hi Uche, Yes, but David Booth

Re: What Does Point Number 3 of TimBL's Linked Data Mean?

2013-06-25 Thread David Booth
On 06/25/2013 11:14 AM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:19 AM, David Booth wrote: The problem is that some people are claiming that RDF is not a *necessary* component of Linked Data. Let me try this -- Is *SPARQL* a *necessary* component of Linked Data? In other words, must

Re: What Does Point Number 3 of TimBL's Linked Data Mean?

2013-06-25 Thread David Booth
On 06/25/2013 01:30 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:19 AM, David Booth wrote: In fact, as long as a standard mapping to the RDF model is available, *any* document format can be interpreted as RDF. Ahah! So, if a standard mapping to the RDF model is available for my

Re: List membership - more women

2013-06-24 Thread David Booth
On 06/24/2013 09:45 AM, Bonnie MacKellar wrote: Hi, I am one of the female lurkers. I am working on a project that is attempting to pull together some of the health/medical datasets. I may have posted once or twice when looking for some information. Generally, I have not posted because I

Re: What Does Point Number 3 of TimBL's Linked Data Mean?

2013-06-24 Thread David Booth
. In short, if a document does not have a URI, it is not on the Web. Similarly, if data is not standards-interpretable as RDF, it is not Semantic Web data, and hence it is not what most of us would call Linked Data. David Booth

Re: The Test of Independent Invention (was: What Does Point Number 3 of TimBL's Linked Data Mean?)

2013-06-23 Thread David Booth
I hope you realize that the point of that thought experiment is to ensure that the technology in question is sufficiently powerful and flexible, so that *if* a parallel technology were discovered, the two could be extended to encompass each other with minimal added cost -- *not* that it is in

Re: Linked Data discussions require better communication

2013-06-21 Thread David Booth
On 06/20/2013 02:09 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html Discussing 5-star Linked Open Data (2010 addition to this document created in 2006) -- ★Available on the web (whatever format) but with an open licence, to be Open Data ★★

Re: What Does Point Number 3 of TimBL's Linked Data Mean?

2013-06-21 Thread David Booth
On 06/21/2013 01:06 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: All, Situation Analysis (for additional context): There are two versions of Design Issues documents [1][2] from TimBL where the primary topic is Linked Data. Both documents a comprised of four bullet points that outline a principled approach to

Re: Linked Data discussions require better communication

2013-06-21 Thread David Booth
On 06/21/2013 10:25 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/21/13 10:15 AM, David Booth wrote: [ . . . ] The only sensible interpretation of the stars is that they indicate milestones of progress *toward* Linked Open Data -- *not* that there are five levels of Linked Open Data. That makes sense

Re: What Does Point Number 3 of TimBL's Linked Data Mean?

2013-06-21 Thread David Booth
On 06/21/2013 07:03 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote: Linked Data is a moving target, it's not Linked Data 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 etc, it's a set of technologies which make it easy to have machine readable data that is interlinked on the web. Okay, but that is kind of like saying that the Web is a moving target

Re: Linked Data discussions require better communication

2013-06-20 Thread David Booth
On 06/20/2013 12:54 PM, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: My 2c is .. i agree with kingsley diagram , linked data should be possible without RDF (no matter serialization) :) however this is different from previous definitions Remember: if the data is not standards-based interpretable as RDF (though

Re: Linked Data discussions require better communication

2013-06-20 Thread David Booth
. +1 Very well put. David Booth

Re: Linked Data discussions require better communication

2013-06-20 Thread David Booth
On 06/20/2013 04:46 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: It's taken 5 years+ to simplify things down to the Linked Data meme (The semantic web done right) and is starting to gain some traction. [ . . . ] The beauty of of LD is that it's simple and can be understood by a wide range or people (especially

Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-19 Thread David Booth
On 06/19/2013 02:29 AM, エリクソン トーレ wrote: My point was that even if the data producer doesn't know anything about RDF, when applying the meme he will produce something that follows the RDF abstract syntax. That is the strength of RDF and why I think it is an intrinsic part of Linked Data. +1

List etiquette [was Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF]

2013-06-19 Thread David Booth
On 06/19/2013 08:33 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Maybe subject of another thread, but this is your fundamental assumption: every one that subscribes to this list assumes that Linked Data and RDF are one and the same thing. Kingsley, it has been REPEATEDLY pointed out to you that neither I nor

Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-19 Thread David Booth
Can you please then setup a pool asking Does creating and publishing Linked Data require knowledge of RDF? I would be willing to make such a poll if it seemed that people wanted it, but I don't think it is necessary. There are *many* document formats that can carry RDF, and it seems

Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-19 Thread David Booth
confused syntax-independence with serialization-independence. RDF is syntax-dependent. The syntax is triples. OTOH, triple syntax can be serialized in a wide variety of ways. Jeff -Original Message- From: David Booth [mailto:da...@dbooth.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:42 PM To: Luca

Re: 返: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-18 Thread David Booth
On 06/18/2013 01:42 AM, エリクソン トーレ wrote: One could argue that these examples, while not being RDF, still adhere to the RDF abstract syntax (triples describing typed directed relationships between resource). But that's what RDF *is* -- the abstract syntax. RDF is syntax independent. Here's

Re: 返: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-18 Thread David Booth
On 06/18/2013 08:29 AM, Luca Matteis wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Luckily, I believe only a minority of folks hold the distorted views you continue to espouse in this debate. I actually believe the

Re: Fwd: The need for RDF in Linked Data

2013-06-18 Thread David Booth
[Oops! I just noticed this stuck in my out box] On 06/17/2013 08:07 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/17/13 1:35 AM, David Booth wrote: If the term Linked Data is hijacked by a broader population to mean *any* sort of data that is linked -- not necessarily RDF -- then this will be a major loss

Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-17 Thread David Booth
On 06/17/2013 08:11 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: On 06/17/2013 06:21 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: This still doesn't answer my initial question How do you produce Linked Data without RDF?. Here's the first way (plain 'ol JSON object): { id: http://example.com/people/luca;, type:

Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-17 Thread David Booth
On 06/18/2013 12:05 AM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote: The debate about whether linked data requires RDF is actually a typical example of a wrong formulation in the applicable logic formats in reasoning resulting from the imperfection of natural language. The formal definition of the

Fwd: The need for RDF in Linked Data

2013-06-16 Thread David Booth
[Followup to semantic-...@w3.org please] Original Message Subject: The need for RDF in Linked Data Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:26:35 -0400 From: David Booth da...@dbooth.org CC: semantic-web semantic-...@w3.org There seems to be some persistent misunderstanding about the role

Ending the Linked Data debate -- PLEASE VOTE *NOW*!

2013-06-13 Thread David Booth
, David Booth P.S. Please restrict follow-up discussion about this poll to public-lod@w3.org

Re: Ending the Linked Data debate -- PLEASE VOTE *NOW*!

2013-06-13 Thread David Booth
On 06/13/2013 03:28 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: I would *suggest* something that goes something like this: Does the term Linked Data imply the use of RDF? You need to specify the context or community in which the term is used. Otherwise the answers would meaningless. A term of art *always*

Re: Ending the Linked Data debate -- PLEASE VOTE *NOW*!

2013-06-13 Thread David Booth
Hi Manu, On 06/13/2013 03:50 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: bcc: RDF WG *JSON-LD Chair hat on* David Booth wrote: In normal usage within the Semantic Web community, does the term Linked Data imply the use of RDF? David, I really wish you would have passed this poll by both the JSON-LD group

Re: Representing NULL in RDF

2013-06-12 Thread David Booth
Right, but you have used out of band information to know that everyone has an age. No automated process could know that. null in SQL only indicates the absence of information, and that is most naturally indicated in RDF by the absence of a triple, just as the RDB-to-RDF Direct Mapping

Re: RDF's challenge

2013-06-11 Thread David Booth
On 06/11/2013 10:59 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: [ . . . ] many RDF advocates want to conflate Linked Data and RDF. This is technically wrong, and marketing wise -- an utter disaster. I have not heard RDF advocates conflating Linked Data and RDF, but maybe you talk to different RDF advocates

Linked Stuff [was Re: RDF's challenge]

2013-06-11 Thread David Booth
On 06/11/2013 12:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/11/13 11:56 AM, David Booth wrote: On 06/11/2013 10:59 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: [ . . . ] many RDF advocates want to conflate Linked Data and RDF. This is technically wrong, and marketing wise -- an utter disaster. I have not heard RDF

Re: Linked Stuff [was Re: RDF's challenge]

2013-06-11 Thread David Booth
On 06/11/2013 04:20 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/11/13 4:12 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: This is the goal of the Semantic Web: to enable machines to usefully and (semi-)automatically, find, share, combine and process web data. Because Linked Data is RDF, Linked Data supports

Re: Linked Stuff [was Re: RDF's challenge]

2013-06-11 Thread David Booth
On 06/11/2013 02:15 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/11/13 1:59 PM, David Booth wrote: [ . . . ] But RDF *is* one of Linked Data's defining characteristics, regardless of whether people outside the RDF community understand that. (And it seems to me that if they don't understand that, then we

Re: Linked Stuff [was Re: RDF's challenge]

2013-06-11 Thread David Booth
On 06/11/2013 06:24 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/11/13 6:18 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com mailto:kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: Really? You are referring to a revision of the original meme [1]. And when you digest

Re: Linked Stuff [was Re: RDF's challenge]

2013-06-11 Thread David Booth
On 06/11/2013 06:02 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 6/11/13 5:15 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: Why are we worried about all of this? Linked Data is clearly defined by the four principles of Tim-Berners Lee [1]. RDF is in there. So in order to be Linked Data it has to use RDF. If you don't want to use

Re: Linked Stuff [was Re: RDF's challenge]

2013-06-11 Thread David Booth
On 06/11/2013 04:57 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: On 11 June 2013 22:51, David Booth da...@dbooth.org mailto:da...@dbooth.org wrote: [ . . . ] The stars are to encourage people *toward* Linked Open Data -- both Linked Data and fully Open Data. The stars do *not* indicate

Fwd: [White House announcement] We're making a lot more data open to the public

2013-05-09 Thread David Booth
FYI. Progress! Note that they mention machine-readable formats like CSV, XML, and JSON. Now, how can we get these organizations to provide that information in Turtle, or provide mappings from those formats to RDF so that the semantics will be clear and information will be easier to link

Re: predatory journals and conferences article in NY Times

2013-04-24 Thread David Booth
On 04/23/2013 09:38 PM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote: Maybe someone should start an iJournals store with articles costing a fixed amount and come up with a formula to pay each contributing journal for content. The whole pay-to-publish model is obsolete and should be discarded wholesale,

Re: predatory journals and conferences article in NY Times

2013-04-23 Thread David Booth
IMO the web makes the traditional publishing bottleneck obsolete -- including the need for peer review, which is mostly just a crude method of indicating endorsement. Perhaps researchers should now publish their work on Facebook, Google+ or other votable media, and their institutions should

Re: Content negotiation for Turtle files

2013-02-06 Thread David Booth
serialization of RDF, which is syntax independent. Here is a much better version: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/Presentations/RDFTutorial/figures/TwoTowers.png It appears in this slide set from Ivan: http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1214-Trento-IH/#%28160%29 -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org

Re: position in cancer informatics

2012-07-20 Thread David Booth
to it, such as establishing well-defined tiers of access for different purposes. We need technical solutions that will help us work through and around these social barriers. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect

Re: Datatypes with no (cool) URI

2012-04-03 Thread David Booth
, such as tinyurl.com or bit.ly? -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Datatypes with no (cool) URI

2012-04-03 Thread David Booth
, but still the best (practical) solution? On 03/04/2012 15:38, David Booth wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 14:33 +0100, Phil Archer wrote: [ . . . ] The actual URI for it is http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=36266 (or rather, that's the page about

Re: Proposal to amend the httpRange-14 resolution

2012-04-03 Thread David Booth
Hi Kingsley, On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 15:01 -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 4/3/12 1:46 PM, David Booth wrote: [ . . . ] This use of URI definitions helps to anchor the meaning of the URI, so that it does not drift uncontrollably. [ . . . ] But once on the Web the user really [loses

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread David Booth
/tag/awwsw/ir/latest/ -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread David Booth
are all terribly murky, [ . . . ] They're only murky if you are trying to interpret them as defining a global semantics for the web, which is not what they were intended to do. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect

Re: httpRange-14 Change Proposal

2012-03-29 Thread David Booth
their representations retrieved via HTTP. Initially this is the same set as rdfs:Resource. However, some applications may choose to additionally constrain this set. . -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions

Re: Middle ground change proposal for httpRange-14

2012-03-29 Thread David Booth
? Any opt-out mechanism shifts the burden from publishers to clients. And in the long run, do we expect to have more clients or more publishers? -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-29 Thread David Booth
. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: httpRange-14 Conformance

2012-03-28 Thread David Booth
://www.w3.org/wiki/UriDefinitionDiscoveryProtocol specifically addresses this issue, though admittedly not with RFC2119 formality. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Middle ground change proposal for httpRange-14

2012-03-25 Thread David Booth
. - It encourages URI owners to publish URI definitions even if those URI definitions are not perfect. It also includes numerous other clarifications. Would something along these lines also meet your concerns? -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author

Re: Middle ground change proposal for httpRange-14

2012-03-25 Thread David Booth
a provisional thumbs up, I still doubt whether the TAG (after more than a decade arguing about this and finally satisfying http-range-14 via a minimal patch) will be able to come to consensus on a major change. Good luck :) Thanks. We'll probably need it. :) -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org

Middle ground change proposal for httpRange-14 -- submission

2012-03-25 Thread David Booth
tweaked, as additional suggestions arrive. If you wish you may make a snapshot whenever you consider your deadline to be. Comments and suggestions are invited; public comments/suggestions should go to www-...@w3.org . -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those

Re: Fwd: HCLS IG Note on mapping and publishing life sciences RDF

2012-03-13 Thread David Booth
10016: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene?term=Alg2[sym]%20homo%20sapiens Thanks! -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Fwd: Call for proposals to amend the httpRange-14 resolution

2012-03-01 Thread David Booth
-- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Metadata about single triples

2012-02-24 Thread David Booth
be satisfying as a general approach. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Metadata about single triples

2012-02-24 Thread David Booth
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 15:18 +0100, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello David, On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 05:37:18PM -0500, David Booth wrote: Essentially, you have used a clause like ?gN http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/maker http://www.brunni.de/foaf.rdf#me . instead of a FROM

Re: Metadata about single triples

2012-02-23 Thread David Booth
into unforeseen difficulties. If some SPARQL servers do handle this well, or if someone has made such measurements, it would be great to hear about them. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Metadata about single triples

2012-02-23 Thread David Booth
could come from one graph and the other from another. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Metadata about single triples

2012-02-22 Thread David Booth
. Anyone interested in using it or helping with its development is invited to contact me. Good luck on your project. It sounds like you are doing great things, and it sounds like you are on the right path technically. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-17 Thread David Booth
. No, the idea is that the administrator for http://purl.org/dbpedia/ updates the redirect, to point to whatever new site is hosting the dbpedia data, so the http://purl.org/dbpedia/Tokyo still works. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author

Re: SOPA Blackout Vote

2012-01-17 Thread David Booth
FYI, that link doesn't seem to work. David On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 11:46 -0500, Kingsley Idehen wrote: All, There is a Linked Data driven poll service that enables those with an opinion re., then matter above, to cast votes: http://vote.data.fm/ . -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org

Re: Combining Linked Data HTTP URIs and HTML5 WebSocket URIs

2011-11-19 Thread David Booth
/jpmccusker/owlsameas-considered-harmful-to-provenance -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Explaining the benefits of http-range14 (was Re: [HTTP-range-14] Hyperthing: Semantic Web URI Validator (303, 301, 302, 307 and hash URIs) )

2011-10-21 Thread David Booth
to others. This is the inescapable consequence of the fact that, for the most part, it is impossible to define anything completely unambiguously -- a principle well discussed and established in philosophy. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author

Re: Explaining the benefits of http-range14 (was Re: [HTTP-range-14] Hyperthing: Semantic Web URI Validator (303, 301, 302, 307 and hash URIs) )

2011-10-20 Thread David Booth
example of where it is useful -- or inversely where it causes harm if it isn't used -- in the Creative Commons licensing use case in Interoperability of referential uses of hashless URIs: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2011/09/referential-use.html (See the section called The Conflict.) -- David Booth

Re: Explaining the benefits of http-range14 (was Re: [HTTP-range-14] Hyperthing: Semantic Web URI Validator (303, 301, 302, 307 and hash URIs) )

2011-10-20 Thread David Booth
to URI collision (i.e., ambiguity): http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-collision -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: CAS, DUNS and LOD (was Re: Cost/Benefit Anyone? Re: Vote for my Semantic Web presentation at SXSW)

2011-08-22 Thread David Booth
, it is enormous value and importance of freely usable universal identifiers. URIs rule! http://urisrule.org/ :) -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

2011-06-21 Thread David Booth
has a better one, let us discuss it. But just blandly assuming that it will all come out in the wash is a bad idea. It won't. I agree with both of these sentiments though. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect

Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

2011-06-16 Thread David Booth
this distinction. But the failure to make this distinction does *not* break the web architecture any more than a failure to distinguish between male dogs and female dogs. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those

Re: Schema.org in RDF ...

2011-06-13 Thread David Booth
in these conversations as the outcomes may turn out to be important. Apology gratefully accepted, and I agree clarity in these conversations is important -- but also difficult to achieve, as ambiguities keep sneaking in. :) -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those

Re: Schema.org in RDF ...

2011-06-11 Thread David Booth
* application is not *every* application. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.

Re: Schema.org in RDF ...

2011-06-11 Thread David Booth
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:56 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: On Jun 11, 2011, at 5:57 PM, David Booth da...@dbooth.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 17:55 +0100, Richard Cyganiak wrote: [ . . . ] http://schema.org/Person is not the same as foaf:Person; one is a class of documents

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-20 Thread David Booth
it. This advice sounds like an excellent candidate for publication in a best practices document. And if it is merely best practice guidance, perhaps that *is* something that the new RDF working group could address. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-26 Thread David Booth
Architecture of the World Wide Web: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#id-resources -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-26 Thread David Booth
description determines it. -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-19 Thread David Booth
, and the heuristic of ignoring the 200 response code is very pragmatic. -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-18 Thread David Booth
that it is *also* a representation corresponding to the Content-location URI. I.e., the returned representation is *both* a representation of a generic *and* a more specific resource. Best wishes, -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein

Re: Role of URI and HTTP in Linked Data

2010-11-17 Thread David Booth
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 12:59 -0600, Pat Hayes wrote: On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:00 AM, David Booth wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 07:23 +0100, Jiří Procházka wrote: [ . . . ] I think it is flawed trying to enforce URI == 1 thing Exactly right. The URI == 1 thing notion is myth #1

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