Excellent initiative! Hopefully you will get many followers and
hopefully we get to see the LPD (Linked PDF data) cloud by 1st April
2012 :-) . This will hopefully replace the current LOD.
Monika
On 01/04/11 08:23, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
After some heated debate after the backlash against me for my recent
comments about PDF, I've been forced to shift to recommending PDF as
the preferred format for the data.southampton.ac.uk site, both for
publishing and importing data.
There are some issues with this and I know not every one will be happy
with the decision; it wasn't easy to make... but on reflection,
however, it's the right one. It is much easier for non programmers
(the majority of people) to work with PDF documents and they are
supported by pretty much every platform you can think of with a choice
of tools and the benefit of familiarity.
We've provided a wrapper around 4store to make PDF the default output
mode:
http://sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk/?query=PREFIX+soton%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fid.southampton.ac.uk%2Fns%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+foaf%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fxmlns.com%2Ffoaf%2F0.1%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+skos%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2004%2F02%2Fskos%2Fcore%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+geo%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2003%2F01%2Fgeo%2Fwgs84_pos%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+rdfs%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+org%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2Fns%2Forg%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+spacerel%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdata.ordnancesurvey.co.uk%2Fontology%2Fspatialrelations%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+ep%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Feprints.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+dct%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fdc%2Fterms%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+bibo%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fontology%2Fbibo%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+owl%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2002%2F07%2Fowl%23%3E%0D%0A%0D%0ASELECT+%3Fs+WHERE+{%0D%0A++++%3Fs+%3Fp+%3Fo+.%0D%0A}+LIMIT+10&output=pdf&jsonp=#results_table
And most information URIs can now be resolved to PDF, but we are
sticking to HTML as the default (for now)
http://data.southampton.ac.uk/products-and-services/FreshFruit.pdf
The full details and rationale are on our data blog
http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/2011/04/01/pdf-selected-as-interchange-format/E
