Thanks Kingsley, timely input into the Linked Data Best Practices doc that is being drafted and will be available for review shortly.
Cheers, Bernadette Hyland, co-chair W3C Government Linked Data Working Group Charter: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/ On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Over the years there has been a subtle "blind spot" re. Linked Data that > ultimately leads to many a debate thread about Linked Data utility and > applications etc.. Thus, I would like to outline a few simple best practices > that would go a long way to putting these reoccurring issues to rest, once > and for all. > > Whenever you publish an (X)HTML based Linked Data interface please try to > achieve at least one of the following: > > 1. Use Linked Data URIs in @href attribute of the <a/> tag associated with > the literal values that typically label the subject, predicate, or object of > an RDF triple. > 2. Use the <link/> tag's @rel attribute to associate the (X)HTML document > with Linked Data URIs of entities it describes or simply mentions (casually > or topically). > 3. If you have server access and admin level privileges, repeat #2 on the > server side using the "Link:" header in HTTP responses . > > Irrespective of how subjectively beautiful or ugly an (X)HTML interface might > be re., Linked Data display, the utility of your Linked Data is ultimately > comprised if it cannot be discovered, shared, and easily referenced to by > other Linked Data tools. > > Remember, this is all about webby structured data that leverages the RDF data > model -- an entity relationship model endowed with explicit machine (and > human) comprehensible entity relationship semantics :-) > > Here's a simple example from DBpedia: http://bit.ly/10wXsXF . > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > >
