Re: SoLiD, and LDP dependency

Indeed - the Annotations spec seems like an exercise in writing a CRUD
API for an LDP store rather than implementing the architecture
described well in
http://www.w3.org/annotation/diagrams/annotation-architecture.svg

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Amy G wrote:
>> > Options could be either abstracting LDP-specific parts out of the SoLiD
>> > spec and considering it on that basis, or reframing it instead as a
>> > layer between the Social/Federation specs (whatever they end up looking
>> > like) and LDP for implementers who /do /want to use LDP as the basis for
>> > their server (the latter being beyond the scope of this WG).
>>
>> On the other hand it is good practice while developing standards to
>> avoid reinventing wheels.
>
>
> +1 to avoiding wheel reinvention / reuse of existing work
>
>
>> The charter of the Web Annotation WG also does not mention LDP:
>> http://www.w3.org/annotation/charter/
>>
>> But that WG now is creating a specification which "primarily builds upon
>> the Linked Data Platform [ldp] recommendation":
>> http://w3c.github.io/web-annotation/protocol/wd/
>
>
> Yes. And some participants and external commenters have some of the same
> concerns with LDP, HTTP, and JSON-LD in the Annotation context as well.
>
> For example:
>  * https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/51  (Should we avoid
> constraining HTTP at all?)
>  * https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/34  (Is Turtle support
> really required? Really?)
>  * https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/52  (Should we avoid
> constraining JSON-LD at all?)
>
> Having a joint understanding of the benefits and disadvantages would be
> great to help both WGs come to consensus individually and, preferably,
> together :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rob
>
> --
> Rob Sanderson
> Information Standards Advocate
> Digital Library Systems and Services
> Stanford, CA 94305

Received on Friday, 24 July 2015 18:20:23 UTC