- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:39:48 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, bill.roberts@planet.nl, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
On 2009-06 -25, at 13:29, Pat Hayes wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: > >> Hi all: >> >> After about two months of helping people generate RDF/XML metadata >> for their businesses using the GoodRelations annotator [1], >> I have quite some evidence that the current best practices of >> using .htaccess are a MAJOR bottleneck for the adoption of Semantic >> Web technology. > > I agree, and raised this issue with the W3C TAG some time ago. It > was apparently not taken seriously. The general consensus seemed to > be that any normal adult should be competent to manipulate an Apache > server. (Was yours a deliberate sarcastic misrepresentation of the TAG's consensus, or a genuine misunderstanding?) The TAG has expressed that the fact that Apache needs root intervention when it doesn't have the right mime type set up is a serious bug. > My own company, however, refuses to allow its employees to have > access to .htaccess files, and I am therefore quite unable to > conform to the current best practice from my own work situation. I > believe that this situation is not uncommon. So you mean you can't set up content negotiation and redirection. But you can use foo#bar URIs like I do. Will the company allow a mime.types file to include application/rdf+xml? Tim
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