Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF

On 11/25/13 6:47 PM, mike amundsen wrote:
> <snip>I still believe that one can talk about REST concepts accurately 
> and fluently without the word "Affordance" .</snip>
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> and who said it could not? why are you saying this kind of stuff here?

As you can see from the recent exchange between Ruben and I, this isn't 
as obvious as you assume. My fundamental goal is simply to be clear 
about the use of "Affordance" with regards to REST narratives -- for 
myself, and hopefully others.

>
> if you don't want to use this word, don't. are you trying to tell me i 
> cannot use it?

I was trying to determine if this word is indeed immutable with regards 
to REST. Anyway, now that this matter is cleared up, I think we can move 
on to others tasks such as harmonizing REST and Linked Data [1] :-)

[1] http://www.w3.org/community/hydra/ .


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> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Kingsley Idehen 
> <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
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>     On 11/25/13 5:03 PM, Ruben Verborgh wrote:
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>         Hi Kingsley
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>             Note, "Affordance" doesn't show up in any of the standard
>             dictionaries I have access to. That said, it does have a
>             Wiktionary entry [1], but that particular definition
>             doesn't actually make a case for it being immutable or
>             devoid of an alternative :-)
>
>         Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" describes the word
>         nicely.
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>         In case it is of any help, my understanding of the word
>         "affordance" is based on the verb:
>         - a URL enables addressing a resource => the URL is an enabler;
>         - the link affords going to the resource => the link is an
>         affordance.
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>         Best,
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>         Ruben
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>     Which can also read as follows, without any loss of meaning:
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>     - a URL enables resource naming => a URL is an identifier since it
>     enables resource denotation (naming);
>     - the link facilitates resource retrieval => the link is a
>     *facilitator* .
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>     I still believe that one can talk about REST concepts accurately
>     and fluently without the word "Affordance" .
>
>     [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/facilitator .
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