On Jun 11, 2013, at 12:58, Hugh Glaser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nicely put, David.
> I have heard people going the other way and disconnecting them, however.
> That is, suggesting that Linked Data does not need to be RDF, which I do find 
> confuses people (and me!)

It seems to me that those unnamed "Web developers" (I am a Web developer, but 
not of their opinion) who think that RDF is unnatural are solving a different 
and simpler problem than Linked Data or RDF developers.  They rightly recognize 
that the RDF formats don't provide them any value when getting data from a 
*single source* for display within a browser.  They are not trying to combine 
data from different silos.  When you do that, Linked Data and RDF are a very 
natural way to go.

Regards,
Dave
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> 
> On 11 Jun 2013, at 16:56, David Booth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
> 

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