On 19/06/2013 13:06, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
The answers matter because the collective goal is getting more
end-users and developers on board, without being overbearing and
draconian. Basically, end-users and developers fall into the following
camps:
1. completely new to all the technical elements -- that includes the
Web's technical architecture
Are they helped by saying "there's RDF/XML, RDFa, Turtle, JSON-LD though
you can use what you want... but we've no tools to help you unless your
stuff becomes RDF"?
2. Web 2.0 developers and users -- this is where R-D-F reflux is
strong for a myriad of reasons (due to bottom-up narratives that are
provincial, conflation laden, and recited like mantras)
Are they helped by saying (the above)
3. experienced applications & systems developers, systems integrators,
and users -- the folks with 10 - 20+ years of expertise covering
development, implementation, and use of operating systems, DBMS, and
business applications (these folks understand data structures, data
access by references, pointers, relations etc..).
Are they helped by going beyond the analogy (and let's face it, RDF is
like EAV/CR, but it's not how people use that technology), and saying
"use what you want... but it won't work with anything else without
making RDF"?
I'm all for an architectural/philosophical consideration of what Linked
Data is, but I don't think we're being sensitive to what the 1000+
subscribers of this list are mainly looking for, which is best practice
and working technology in my opinion.
Barry
