- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:50:31 +0100
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, "semantic-web@w3c.org" <semantic-web@w3c.org>
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 15:13 +0100, Mark Birbeck wrote: > The original point of this thread seemed to me to be saying that if > .htaccess is the key to the semantic web, then it's never going to > happen. It simply isn't the key to the semantic web though. .htaccess is a simple way to configure Apache to do interesting things. It happens to give you a lot of power in deciding how requests for URLs should be translated into responses of data. If you have hosting which allows you such advanced control over your settings, and you can create nicer URLs, then by all means do so - and not just for RDF, but for all your URLs. It's a Good Thing to do, and in my opinion, worth switching hosts to achieve. But all that isn't necessary to publish linked data. If you own example.com, you can upload foaf.rdf and give yourself a URI like: <http://example.com/foaf.rdf#alice> (Or foaf.ttl, foaf.xhtml, whatever.) No, that's not as elegant as <http://example.com/alice> with a connection negotiated 303 redirect to representations in various formats, but it does work, and it won't break anything. Let's not blow this all out of proportion. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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