Cool URIs MIME types

The discussion on "About computer-optimized RDF format" has reminded me of
an issue I have been pondering, as it is certainly an option to communicate
compressed ntriples.
We have quite a lot of RDF that is in different RDF formats.

It seems that people think that RDF/XML is RDF, and don't notice turtle and
n3; in some sense this is not surprising, as the only registered MIME type,
I think, is application/rdf+xml.
So coming to the Cool URIs, the paper makes no mention of what to do with
other formats, so perhaps it could be updated to provide advice on best
practice for application/x-turtle (or application/turtle soon?) and
text/rdf+n3.

I think there are some questions here; certainly having a policy might be
good for future compatibility.
For example: Does the content negotiation on the
http://www.acme.com/id/alice include the other MIME types? If so, does it go
to http://www.acme.com/data/alice, where there is more content negotiation,
or each to a different URI?


Of course my apologies if I have missed this somewhere.

Best
Hugh

PS
Of course the other strand, http://www.acme.com/people/alice, might also
have alternative reps, such as html and pdf, but it is the RDF that I am
concerned about at the moment.

Received on Thursday, 24 July 2008 14:33:27 UTC