On 06/20/2013 04:46 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
It's taken 5 years+ to simplify things down to the
Linked Data meme ("The semantic web done right") and is starting to gain
some traction.
[ . . . ]
The beauty of of LD is that it's simple and can be understood by a wide
range or people (especially outside academia). In terms of branding
it's valid to feel that conflating LD and RDF would be a premature
optimization.
But if you *believe* that Linked Data is "the semantic web done right"
then unless you intend to re-architect the semantic web, RDF is
*essential*, because RDF is the universal data model that was chosen for
the semantic web. And without a universal data model you get walled
gardens of data that cannot be used together. And that is the
*opposite* of what the semantic web is all about.
This point was more fully explained here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2013Jun/0120.html
David
