On 6/11/13 11:56 AM, David Booth wrote:
RDF isn't the defining characteristic when speaking about Linked Data outside the RDF community. It is much more palatable outside of the RDF community to loosely couple Linked Data (the concept) and RDF (a framework) which enables the construction of powerful Linked Data that's endowed with *explicit* human and machine-comprehensible entity relationships semantics.On 06/11/2013 10:59 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:[ . . . ] many RDF advocates want to conflate Linked Data and RDF. This is technically wrong, and marketing wise -- an utter disaster.I have not heard RDF advocates conflating Linked Data and RDF, but maybe you talk to different RDF advocates than me.AFAICT, the vast majority of RDF advocates know that Linked Data is RDF in which URIs are deferenceable to more RDF, but RDF is not necessarily Linked Data, because RDF itself does not require URIs to be dereferenceable.David
Why? Because you don't build friction with folks that are already familiar with similar concepts albeit described using different terminology.
The key is to build bridges rather than impede their construction by enforcing world views in the most inflexible way.
If someone indicates to you that the letters R-D-F don't work for them, for whatever reason, what's wrong with triangulation to the same destination when it's the fundamental concept that matters, not the labels that we slap on them at specific times in our innovation continuum?
RDF and the Entity Relationship model [1] outlined by Peter Chen in his 1976 dissertation are linked, conceptually and technically. That association is very powerful and extremely useful in situations where your audience suffers from R-D-F reflux.
RDF is useful, but it (like all innovations) has genealogy. That genealogy is just as important as the innovations it adds to the continuum.
Links:1. http://bit.ly/YTdz3N -- The Entity-Relationship Model -- Toward a Unified View of Data (note: page 34) .
-- 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
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
