On 6/21/13 9:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
existing thread, and also for probably saying things other folks have already brought up]I have worked on RDF and systems using RDF for over 15 years now (and on RDF's "non-Web" predecessors before that). The most important thing I have learned is that while it is possible to do Linked Data and Semantic Web stuff *without* RDF, whatever alternative technology you choose, you soon feel compelled to add features that make it look like RDF. I particularly see this whenever someone comes to me advocating the use of JSON. RDF is what it is for a reason, *not* because we arbitrarily threw something together. So it is not that RDF "looks bad" or whatever people might be saying. It is that other technologies and approaches "fall short" of what Linked Data and Semantic Web really need. Let's not please reinvent things or shove a round peg in a square hole just because someone prefers curly braces over angle brackets. Issues like that are not interesting (at all), and we have more important things to do. Regards, - Ora
Ora, I am sure you know I am not advocating reinvention of anything.I am advocating the principle of "independent invention" [1] whereby the concepts denoted by "Linked Data" , "Semantic Web", and "RDF" are the focal point rather than their many labels.
As you know personally, I am all about telling the same story in different ways, subject to my target audience. As you also know, at this point in time, there are more folks familiar with the entity relationship model and EAV/CR than there are RDF and its specific contributions to this innovation continuum.
Our collective goal is to get everyone to embrace the fundamental concept. That can happen without being distracted by its many labels.
We want to free data from the tyranny of applications. Data and applications should be loosely coupled, just as concepts and labels should be loosely coupled :-)
Links:1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html -- Axioms of Web Architecture .
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