Re: Support for Turtle in WebID

[Kingsley Idehen]

On 12/23/11 4:31 AM, Henry Story wrote:

On 22 Dec 2011, at 22:33, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

On 12/22/11 4:28 PM, Patrick Logan wrote:

The WebID incubation effort is documented at http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID and 
there is a discussion on the mail list about supporting the Turtle format. We 
are looking for input from members of the linked data community generally.

Currently RDF/XML and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 are required for consumers of WebID 
profiles/pages. Support for Turtle would probably be worded as a required 
addition to these other formats.

The incremental cost of supporting Turtle seems fairly low, given support for 
RDF/XML.

Do readers of this list foresee any significant issues with this addition? 
Would you recommend this addition?

Thanks
-Patrick

To get the ball rolling.
+1 re., giving Turtle and RDF/XML equal billing.

Stephane Corlosquet had a good idea on the webid mailing list which is 
summarised as

MUST support both for consumers, deprecate RDF/XML for publishers, and remove 
the example
RDF/XML from the spec.

What about:

1. Don't have RDF/XML only examples

2. Don't give RDF/XML special status i.e., when listing formats for publishers it has to be alongside other formats that are "cut and paste" friendly.

The reason we are asking the wider community is that we want WebID to be an 
entry point
for people from social networks into the LinkedData community. So even though 
all our tools
can support every format, if we put that into the spec there is much too high a 
risk of
cognitive dissonance.

Yes.

There is an extra very good reason for putting Turtle up there, and that is that
we have a simple SPARQL example in the spec
     http://webid.info/spec#verifying-the-webid-claim
and so that makes understanding for newbies easier.

Yes.

Henry

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