On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 19/11/12 14:13, Reto Bachmann-Gmür wrote:
>
>> >  - Linked Data Platform: Reto I guess you have missed this
>>> >presentation [1] at ApacheCon. IMO a Linked Data Platform is something
>>> >that deserves an own project and as soon as there is such a Platform
>>> >available we should use it in Stanbol. This would allow us to remove a
>>> >lot of code in Stanbol (especially in the Entityhub) - a good thing as
>>> >it allows to focus more on core features of Stanbol.
>>> >
>>>
>> I don't think this can really be compared. Clerezza is already quite close
>> to comfroming with the Linked Data Platform Specification. It has a
>> lightweigh arcitecture very similar to Stanbol based on OSGi. By contrast
>> Salzburg Research Marmotta/Linda proposal is a Java Enterprise application
>> that ceratinly could use some stanbol services but which has a quite
>> different architecture. The W3C LDP isn't describing a heavy weight
>> architecture but a set of recommendation on how to use the REST principles
>> in the context of linked data. If stanbol wants to provide the promised
>> RESTfull services it should strive for compliance with LDP specifications.
>>
>
> That would be good.  This is separate from the RDF API?
>

Is uses the RDF API (so that it can be used on multiple backends). But as a
project it would imho ideally be separated (I think Stanbol would be a good
place).

>
> At the HTTP protocol level W3C/LDP is quite light - but even the plain
> LDP/resources , there is a need to interpret the vocuabulary and maintain
> certain triples in the data.  LDP/containers are somewhat more complicated
> (and evolving) with POST generating URIs, paging and again needing
> vocabulary interpretation.
>
> There is a need to make some real design decisions - LDP is not a spec for
> a generic server you can implement.  It might be IF the WG decides on how
> clients can create containers and containers-in-containers - it is just as
> likely that the container structure will be fixed by "the application", so
> configuration of the server-side will be a major part of any project.  But
> it's a very big IF.
>
> The access control is important.
>
> How much of this does Clerezza show?  The WG would be interested to hear
> about it.
>

I've not yet looked at the details of section 5. For section I described
compliance here:

http://wiki.apache.org/clerezza/LinkedDataPlatform

Reto

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>         Andy
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