Re: LDP interfaces in Java (based on Jena and JAX-RS)

On 8/7/12 8:19 AM, Steve K Speicher wrote:
> As the member submission highlights, you can achieve a very powerful
> LInked Data Platform with AWWW, some clarifying rules and some concepts
> from RDF (no full SPARQL needed, etc) and using already registered media
> types based on the representations of the RDF (XML, JSON, Turtle, etc).

Yes, SPARQL and RDF formats are implementation details. None of them 
change the fundamentals:

1. give names to entities (*things*) of interest

2. use de-referencable URIs as names so that they resolve to documents 
bearing useful information (e.g., description of URI referent)

3. useful information should take the form of fine-grained structured 
document content (e.g., an EAV graph pictorial where entity=attribute 
value pairs coalesce around a description subject's URI based name)

4. refer to other entities of interest by name.

That's me paraphrasing TimBL's meme without the insertion of 
implementation details such as RDF and SPARQL.

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