Re: ISSUE-66: LinkedDataT

On 8/5/14 1:20 PM, Ruben Verborgh wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
>> Funny fact: the "original principles" didn't explicitly mention it:
>>
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20061115043657/http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Li
>> nkedData.html
>>
>> It took 3 years till that was added.
> Waw, that's the fact of the day for me!

LOL!

There are more gems to come, but I'll let you find that out as you delve 
deeper :-)

>
>>> I'd dare to say that the majority of people do assume
>>> that Linked Data is just done with RDF.
>> That's obviously true for the Semantic Web community. Not so true for the
>> rest of the world :-)
> I thought the only people who cared about Linked Data
> were those in the Semantic Web community. My bad!
>
> Any examples of non-RDF Linked Data in the wild?

I would encourage not-aware-of-RDF instead of non-RDF. As per my many 
responses to this thread, the problem is that what we know as RDF 
existed before the W3C's RDF initiative i.e., the Web was always about 
Linked Data (things denoted by HTTP URIs) and what came to be known as 
RDF (a relations description framework). The job of the W3C is to 
formalize aspects of the Web, unfortunately that's ended up looking like 
"draconian prescriptions for how one MUST use the Web". RDF is really 
about formalizing an aspect of the Web i.e., the infrastructure for 
describing relations that constitute and create the Web.

<a href="{some-relation-uri}">Relation</a> is a triple:

<{some-relation-uri}> <#denotes> [ a rdf:Property ;
                                                           rdfs:label 
"Relation" ;
skos:altLabel "Predicate" ;
rdfs:comment """I am a Relationship property/predicate constructed via 
an HTML anchor (<a/>) tag. """
                                                         ] .

The Relation semantics aspect of RDF plus Linked Data's HTTP URIs 
enables the above to evolve, ad nauseam to the likes of:

<{some-relation-uri}> <#denotes> [ a rdf:Property, 
owl:InverseFunctionalProperty ;
                                                           rdfs:label 
"Relation" ;
skos:altLabel "Predicate" ;
rdfs:comment """I am a Relationship property/predicate not easily 
constructable via HTML anchor (<a/>) tags or even
<link/> tags. Hence the likes of Microdata, RDFa, and <script/> tag 
based alternatives"""
                                                         ] .

Explicit or implicit denotation and connotation, combined with the use 
in digital sentences are the real issues that have ended up being 
mangled in many an RDF and Linked Data narrative.

[SNIP]

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