Martin,
On 25 Jun 2009, at 18:44, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:
As a consequence, we will modify our tool so that it generates
"dummy" RDFa code with span/div that *just* represents the meta-data
without interfering with the presentation layer.
That can then be inserted as code snippets via copy-and-paste to any
XHTML document.
By "dummy" RDFa markup, do you mean something that is completely
invisible, so the data wouldn't actually appear on the page, e.g. by
using style="display:hidden"? That would worry me a bit, because the
content is invisible without a special RDFa or GoodRelations
processor, and hence will probably not be kept up-to-date as well as
information that's plainly visible in a web browser. For evidence,
have a look at the average SemWeb geek's FOAF profile. Hence, I would
suggest to keep the information visible. Sorry if I misunderstood and
that was your intention all along!
Just an idea: How about creating a nicely styled static HTML page that
sort of looks like an official certificate, with a nice big
GoodRelations logo etc, and all the data is on the page, annotated
with RDFa? Might be cleaner than hidden RDFa markup, and a static HTML
page is hopefully easier to deploy than content-negotiated RDF/XML.
Re .htaccess, you are completely right, it's not an option. For
average users, the only way they will get content negotiation right is
if their server (e.g. Virtuoso) or installable web application (e.g.
Neologism) supports it out of the box.
(On the value of content negotiation in general: I think the key point
is that any linked data URI intended for re-use, when put into a
browser by the average person interested in linked data publishing,
MUST return something human-readable. That's a hard requirement,
otherwise people will never be confident about what a particular URI
means and hence they won't re-use. That was the thinking behind the
Cool URIs note when Leo and I wrote it a few years ago. In the past,
the only way to get that effect was with content negotiation, so even
though content negotiation is a pain, it's what we had to do. In the
present, we have an alternative thanks to RDFa. In the future, maybe
there'll be a day when the average linked data user will have a
browser that supports linked data out of the box.)
Best,
Richard
Any opinions?
Best
Martin
[1] http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/
Danny Ayers wrote:
Thank you for the excellent questions, Bill.
Right now IMHO the best bet is probably just to pick whichever format
you are most comfortable with (yup "it depends") and use that as the
single source, transforming perhaps with scripts to generate the
alternate representations for conneg.
As far as I'm aware we don't yet have an easy templating engine for
RDFa, so I suspect having that as the source is probably a good
choice
for typical Web applications.
As mentioned already GRDDL is available for transforming on the fly,
though I'm not sure of the level of client engine support at present.
Ditto providing a SPARQL endpoint is another way of maximising the
surface area of the data.
But the key step has clearly been taken, that decision to publish
data
directly without needing the human element to interpret it.
I claim *win* for the Semantic Web, even if it'll still be a few
years
before we see applications exploiting it in a way that provides real
benefit for the end user.
my 2 cents.
Cheers,
Danny.
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