On May 5, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
Interesting. I think the challenge with RDF historically is *not*
so much its _lack_ of sufficiently powerful functionality, but more
the "embarrassment of riches." The goal of relProperty is to do
something that is:
a) brain-dead simple
b) trivially insert-able in vanilla, validate-able HTML
c) easily accessed/updated via standard HTTP methods
I made a note about that on the wiki:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/property#relProperty
Are you talking about listing each property seperately in their
own link statement? Or a link to a file describing the URI schema
in use for the properties of that page?
The former, I think; otherwise, it becomes difficult to "identify
each individually update-able resource with its own URI."
Clarified at: http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/property#
The reason I ask is this then sounds suspiciously like the meta tag
with some server updating code tacked on.
= Open Issues =
* Can properties be chained together? If so, are they retrieved
in parallel, or would those be subproperties?
* Would we need to worry about [http://lists.evolt.org/archive/
Week-of-Mon-20020114/065707.html semicolon exploits]?
* Are there other conventions we should follow/avoid?
* Should the "Link:" tag itself be declared in HTTP "OPTIONS"?
issue 1: It depends on whether our metadata is going to be flat
or heirarchical I suppose. if it's the latter, semicolon may not
be the best choice for use in a URL schema, as it presents a
number of technical problems.
Well, I would recommend flat, at least to start with. However, I'm
not clear why ";" creates hierarchy problems? My gut-level
interpretation would be:
;prop1;prop2 are chained properties
;prop1/subprop1 is a "hierarchical" property
That is, we just reuse the existing HTML hierarchy separator. What
would be the problem with that?
Ambiguity
http://example.org/test/books;citation/author=Breton;title=example
is author a subproperty of citation, or a subdirectory of books? Is
title a child of citation, or a child of books?
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