Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF

Hi Ed,

Forgot to answer this part:

> I’d be interested to hear what your specific use case is.

In my research [1], I'm looking at giving machines the same affordances as people.
Many things on today's Web cannot be done by machines due to a lack of affordances.
While RDF allows to interpret data and facts, it does not help to interpret actions.

So use cases I'm looking at are:
- how to represent a HTML page with a form in RDF, so automated clients can use it?
- how to make such clients search?
- how to make them execute state-changing actions?

Giving them access to hypermedia controls is a crucial part in that [2].

Best,

Ruben

[1] http://ruben.verborgh.org/publications/
[2] http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven

Received on Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:15:41 UTC