- From: Ian Davis <me@iandavis.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:47:10 +0100
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, "semantic-web@w3c.org" <semantic-web@w3c.org>
On Wednesday, July 8, 2009, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 15:13 +0100, Mark Birbeck wrote: >> The original point of this thread seemed to me to be saying that if >> .htaccess is the key to the semantic web, then it's never going to >> happen. > > It simply isn't the key to the semantic web though. > > .htaccess is a simple way to configure Apache to do interesting things. > It happens to give you a lot of power in deciding how requests for URLs > should be translated into responses of data. If you have hosting which > allows you such advanced control over your settings, and you can create > nicer URLs, then by all means do so - and not just for RDF, but for all > your URLs. It's a Good Thing to do, and in my opinion, worth switching > hosts to achieve. > > But all that isn't necessary to publish linked data. If you own > example.com, you can upload foaf.rdf and give yourself a URI like: > > <http://example.com/foaf.rdf#alice> > > (Or foaf.ttl, foaf.xhtml, whatever.) This just works and is how the html web grew. Write a document and save it into a publuc spaxe. Fancy stuff like pretty URIs need more work but are not at all necessary for linked data or the semantic web. > > Let's not blow this all out of proportion. Hear hear! > -- > Toby A Inkster > <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> > <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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