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Re: Pointer to the ontology for generic resources. HTTP Link header.

From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:03:10 -0400
Message-Id: <DE1CC667-459C-4A3E-B9BC-BCE432F39C7F@w3.org>
Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
To: cdr <_@whats-your.name>


On 2007-11 -02, at 13:28, cdr wrote:

>
>> __$ curl -I http://www.w3.org/2007/ont/unit.rdf
>> Link: meta;rel=meta
>
> i had a question about how to link to metadata for an Image or  
> other binary file, from the header, and i think this addresses it
>
> Link: http://abs/path/to/meta.rdf;rel=http://purl.org/dc/elements/ 
> 1.1/description
>
> ^- correct use with absolute URIs?
>
> will tabulator follow anything here. or only specific predicates  
> denoting availafixble metadata?

It will follow any URI for the file, but it must be rel=meta -- not a  
URI at all.

It currently processes it in just the same way as an HTML link element.
This gives the HTML WG control of a bit of HTTP spec, effeciively.

We could argue that   'rel=meta' here is a relative URI relative to a  
common default.

>
> can i just throw all the triples (eg EXIF) right into a single link  
> header using commas to seperate? including strings?

Not in this implemention.

But I must admit thinking of HTTP headers

Prefix: dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
N3:  <> dc:title "Another interesting picture".

The prefixes would have to affect all the N3: headers, ie be deemed  
to have been given first, as http is unordered.

Tim

>
>> Tabulator implements this on the cleint side, and pulls in the  
>> metadata.
>
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