Re: Building Linked Data into the Core of the Web

On 9/19/14 8:35 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 20 September 2014 02:27, Brent Shambaugh <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com 
> <mailto:brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Perhaps the we should call it web applications?
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> The web is the discourse of humanity.
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> It goes beyond http, html etc.
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> It's about being able to describe anything about anything.
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> So it's two things rolled into one, by overloading the idea of the URI
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> One is a universal namespace, independent of any protocol or medium  
> -- this is the more important part
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> The same structure is what you see in the address bar of your browser 
> to get to content and follow links -- this was the bootstrap.
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> The goal of the web was that 'anything could be connected to 
> anything'.  CSS, JavaScript, HTML etc are just footnotes ...

+1

The ability to say anything (using digital subject->predicate->object 
sentences which is what RDF formalizes), about anything (identified by 
HTTP URIs), from wherever (a connected device), whenever.

[1] http://bit.ly/world-wide-web-25-years-later
[2] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/07/nanotation.html .

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