On 06/25/2013 01:30 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote:
On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:19 AM, David Booth wrote:
In fact, as long as a standard mapping to the RDF model is
available, *any* document format can be interpreted as RDF.
Ahah!
So, if "a standard mapping to the RDF model is available" for my
chosen data publication format -- which I may choose just because it
looks pretty to me -- it doesn't matter that *I* don't know anything
about RDF, that mapping, SPARQL, etc.
Yes! :)
In other words, I can publish Linked Data without RDF [ . . . ]
No, that does not follow. :( But you *can* publish Linked data
without *knowing* RDF and even without knowing that you *are* publishing
RDF -- for example if you publish JSON-LD.
Your *interpretation* and *exploitation* of that Linked Data may
require RDF and/or SPARQL and/or a lot more alphabet soup -- but the
simple question of whether what I have published counts as Linked
Data or not requires much, much less.
No, it requires the RDF to be a part of the information content of the
document, represented in some standards-based RDF-interpretable
serialization. It isn't a question of what tools or technologies the
client application uses. Whether the serialization is Turtle, JSON-LD
or anything else, the RDF information content needs to be there.
David
