On 06/11/2013 06:02 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 6/11/13 5:15 PM, Luca Matteis wrote:
Why are we worried about all of this? "Linked Data" is clearly defined
by the four principles of Tim-Berners Lee [1]. RDF is in there. So in
order to be Linked Data it has to use RDF.
If you don't want to use RDF, then you're not doing Linked Data.
You're just doing something else and you're free to call it whatever
you want.
1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
Really? You are referring to a revision of the original meme [1]. And
when you digest that meme, please don't come back inferring that TimBL
must have been thinking about RDF when he produced outlined the four
points in his original GOLDEN meme.
That original GOLDEN meme is archived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20061201121454/http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
and makes very clear that TimBL *was* thinking about RDF when he wrote
that. As I pointed out before at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013Jun/0041.html
[[
> Uh . . . did you read that entire document? Please do.
> Because unless one were intentionally exercising selective
> understanding, I do not see how anyone could honestly misread
> it so badly as to not realize that it is specifically talking
> about RDF and the Semantic Web, making reference to the way the
> HTML-based web works, and showing that the same principles
> of linking and dereferencing are needed for RDF and the
> Semantic Web. The very first paragraph says:
> [[
> The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It
> is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore
> the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it,
> you can find other, related, data.
> ]]
>
> And the second paragraph explicitly says: "for data they [are]
> links between arbitrary things described by RDF". I don't
> know how he could have said it more clearly.
>
> Claiming that that document in any way supports the notion
> that Linked Data is not based on RDF would be disingenuous to
> the point of being fraudulent.
]]
David
