Re: Granular dereferencing ( prop by prop ) using REST + LinkedData; Ideas?

Hi Yves,

> Indeed, that's a bad example - replace it by "find here persons born
> in NYC and their birth date". It is easy enough to find examples that
> involve more than just one property in the target document, e.g. "Find
> here female scientists born in NYC", "Find here the phone numbers of
> the Tabulator's developers", "Find the start time of chords on that
> audio signal", "Find here my latitude and longitude and the time at
> which they were captured"...

What is the advantage of publishing examples instead of just pointing  
to the vocabularies used in the data sets? I think it might be  
difficult to find representative examples for, let's say, dbpedia  
data: chances are high that you miss some aspects.

Also what is the point of providing explicit examples instead of just  
ASKing the endpoint if it returns useful data?

I think it might be sufficient to just publish which vocabularies are  
used by a certain endpoint. Even dbpedia uses a restricted set of  
vocabularies, so if a client would know in advance which vocabularies  
are used, it could decide if the data returned from this endpoint is  
useful. This could be even more restricted to publishing "application  
profiles" of vocabularies; i.e., subsets of the vocabularies that are  
actually used within a dataset.

Best regards, Bernhard

Received on Monday, 5 January 2009 11:19:52 UTC