In message <[email protected]>, Steve
Harris <[email protected]> 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 have broken the system.
I couldn't agree more.
<rant subject="off-topic syntax rant of the decade">
Personally I think that RDF/XML doesn't help, it's too hard to write
by hand. None of the other syntaxes for RDF triples really have the
stamp of legitimacy. I think that's something that could really help
adoption, the the same way that strict XHTML, in the early 1990's
wouldn't have been so popular with people (like me) who just wanted to
bash out some text in vi.
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Well, in my view, when we get to "bashing out" triples it isn't the
holding syntax which will be the main challenge, it's the Linked Data
URLs. Obviously, in a Linked Data resource about your dog, you can
invent the URL for the subject of your triples, but if your Data is to
be Linked in any meaningful way, you also need URLs for their predicates
and objects.
This implies that, without a sort of Semantic FrontPage (TM) with
powerful and user-friendly lookup facilities, no-one is going to bash
out usable Linked Data. Certainly not with vi. And if you have such
authoring software, the easiest part of its job will be rendering your
statements into as many syntaxes as you want.
Richard
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