On 15 May 2009, at 17:20, Manu Sporny wrote:
The argument that link rot would cause massive damage to the semantic
web is just not true. Even if there is minor damage caused, it is
fairly
easy to recover from it, as outlined above.
I was talking about this recently somewhere (can't
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
Therefore, link rot is a bigger problem for CURIE
prefixes than for links.
There have been a number of people now that have gone to great lengths
to outline how awful link rot is for CURIEs and the semantic web in
general. This is a flawed conclusion, based on the
I understand that there are ways to recover resources that disappear from
the Web; however, the postulated advantage of RDFa you can go see what it
means simply does not hold. The recovery mechanism, Web search/cache,
would be as good for CURIE URL as for domain prefixes. Creating a redirect
is
