Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-13 Thread Dave Reynolds
Steve Harris wrote: On 10 Jul 2009, at 11:00, Toby Inkster wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:40 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Personally I think that RDF/XML doesn't help, it's too hard to write by hand. MicroTurtle, the sloppy RDF format: http://buzzword.org.uk/2009/microturtle/spec

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Harris
On 10 Jul 2009, at 15:36, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Steve Harris wrote: On 10 Jul 2009, at 14:31, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Steve et. al, If we are going to take the how the Web was born theme re. figuring out the path forward, then what's wrong with RDFa? If people sort of know how to write

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-12 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Steve Harris wrote: On 10 Jul 2009, at 15:36, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Steve Harris wrote: On 10 Jul 2009, at 14:31, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Steve et. al, If we are going to take the how the Web was born theme re. figuring out the path forward, then what's wrong with RDFa? If people sort of

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Roderic Page
There's a lot to be said for keeping things very simple. Over in the biodiversity informatics community we've adopted Life Science Identifiers (LSID) as our identifier of choice, which require special software to both serve and resolve, plus the added complication of convincing your

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Richard Light
OK, lets take a step back from the discussion of redirection, and remind ourselves what we are trying to achieve ('cos we're all agreed on that, aren't we ;-) ). Just in case that is an issue in itself, here's my list, in order of priority: 1. unique and persistent URIs are routinely used

RE: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Peter F Brown (Pensive SA)
(3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs I am finding the current discussion really difficult. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. As an example: In the 1980s there were a load of hypertext systems that required the users to do a bunch of stuff to buy into them

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Harris
On 10 Jul 2009, at 01:22, Hugh Glaser wrote: If I can't simply publish some RDF about something like my dog, by publishing a file of triples that say what I want at my standard web site, we have broken the system. I couldn't agree more. rant subject=off-topic syntax rant of the decade

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Richard Light
In message 7544285b-e1b1-48a4-96e0-bded62175...@garlik.com, Steve Harris steve.har...@garlik.com writes On 10 Jul 2009, at 01:22, Hugh Glaser wrote: If I can't simply publish some RDF about something like my dog, by publishing a file of triples that say what I want at my standard web site, we

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Toby Inkster
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:40 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Personally I think that RDF/XML doesn't help, it's too hard to write by hand. MicroTurtle, the sloppy RDF format: http://buzzword.org.uk/2009/microturtle/spec I really need to document my implementation's error recovery too. It

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Juan Sequeda
Steve is right. If I am not wrong, when TBL gave his talk at CERN for the 20th aniversary of the web, he said that he was amazed that people were hacking HTML by hand. He never expected it. Now... we are the geeks doing RDF, conneg, linked data by hand... In a couple of years we will create

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Dan Brickley
On 10/7/09 12:23, Juan Sequeda wrote: Steve is right. If I am not wrong, when TBL gave his talk at CERN for the 20th aniversary of the web, he said that he was amazed that people were hacking HTML by hand. He never expected it. Now... we are the geeks doing RDF, conneg, linked data by hand...

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Richard Light
In message 1247219612.18243.10.ca...@ophelia2.g5n.co.uk, Toby Inkster t...@g5n.co.uk writes If I use the URL of my machine readable data to identity myself (myself being the subject of discourse) then it immediately creates ambiguities. What would it mean for the file to have a dc:created

Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Olivier Rossel
We must consider all use cases. (1) the KISS case you present is the easy one: URIs natively map to their URLs. (2) the redirection case, with admin rights:: Oops, i had to rename my files on the server and now my URIs no longer match their URLs. Fortunately, I have access to a redirection feature

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Benjamin Nowack
On 10.07.2009 10:53:32, Toby Inkster wrote: What would it mean for the file to have a dc:created property? Would the value of that property be my date of birth, or would it be the date I first uploaded my data? The classic example is that if I use the same URL to represent myself and my web

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Steve Harris wrote: On 10 Jul 2009, at 11:00, Toby Inkster wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:40 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Personally I think that RDF/XML doesn't help, it's too hard to write by hand. MicroTurtle, the sloppy RDF format: http://buzzword.org.uk/2009/microturtle/spec

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Harris
On 10 Jul 2009, at 14:31, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Steve et. al, If we are going to take the how the Web was born theme re. figuring out the path forward, then what's wrong with RDFa? If people sort of know how to write HTML, why not show them how to add rich metadata via RDFa? That said,

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Steve Harris wrote: On 10 Jul 2009, at 14:31, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Steve et. al, If we are going to take the how the Web was born theme re. figuring out the path forward, then what's wrong with RDFa? If people sort of know how to write HTML, why not show them how to add rich metadata via

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Sandro Hawke
On 10.07.2009 10:53:32, Toby Inkster wrote: What would it mean for the file to have a dc:created property? Would the value of that property be my date of birth, or would it be the date I first uploaded my data? The classic example is that if I use the same URL to represent myself and my

RE: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Peter F Brown (Pensive SA)
hours) interface about Linked Data URIs On 10/7/09 12:23, Juan Sequeda wrote: Steve is right. If I am not wrong, when TBL gave his talk at CERN for the 20th aniversary of the web, he said that he was amazed that people were hacking HTML by hand. He never expected it. Now... we

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
I answer to Toby just becouse its handy to do so but i just want to make a general statement. Toby is stating the classical view, clean knowledge representation, 0% dealing with ambiguity. Hugh is hinting at is that the complexity of the clean solution is overwhelming since it is

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-10 Thread Eric Hellman
Gee, this makes waay too much sense. Why would you *ever* want to make an assertion about the semantics of a URI using RDF??? Isn't that what HTTP is for? Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net

Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-09 Thread Hugh Glaser
I am finding the current discussion really difficult. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. As an example: In the 1980s there were a load of hypertext systems that required the users to do a bunch of stuff to buy into them. They had great theoretical bases, and their