Re: TPF/LDF - why the explicit coupling with Hydra?

We need a SKOS thesaurus to define these concepts ;)

Would suggest to use HydraCG to refer to the community group and Hydra{\sCore}?{\sVocabulary}? for the vocab.

Regards,

John

On 22 Mar 2015, at 04:07, Nathan Ridley <axefrog@gmail.com> wrote:

> That explains, it thanks. Like you said, the interchangeability of "Hydra" with "Hydra Core Vocabulary" was my primary point of confusion.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> On 22 March 2015 at 09:02, Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be> wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> Perhaps it's best to get terminology straight first:
> – “Hydra” is a W3C community group concerning the development of interoperable, hypermedia-driven Web APIs
> In this working group, we discuss:
> – “Hydra Core Vocabulary” is an RDF ontology with hypermedia API concepts such as hypermedia controls
> – “Linked Data Fragments” is a framework to examine queryable Linked Data APIs.
> 
> > LDF is a conceptual framework and TPF is just one possible (Hydra-based) implementation for LDF.
> 
> That's right (with “Hydra” being short for ”Hydra Core Vocabulary”).
> 
> > Given that there are many things that could be implemented (or proposed) using Hydra semantics, why the explicit side-by-side promotion of LDF and TPF on the Hydra website?
> 
> Because Hydra is more than only the Hydra Core Vocabulary.
> TPF depends on the Hydra Core Vocabulary, but not the other way round.
> Both TPF and the Core Vocabulary are in the Hydra W3C Community Group.
> 
> > The presentational style suggests that to know Hydra, one should also understand LDF and TPF
> 
> That's correct: to know the Hydra W3C Community Group entirely,
> you should understand the Hydra Core Vocabulary, LDF, and TPF.
> 
> > I just don't quite understand why the two are presented in a style that suggests that they're implicitly coupled somehow.
> 
> Part of this is likely because on this list, “Hydra” and “Hydra Core Vocabulary”
> are often used interchangeably, while they are actually different things.
> 
> I try to help clear up this confusion by consistently using “Hydra Core Vocabulary”;
> perhaps this is something we could start using in general.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ruben
> 
> 
> 
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