Re: Media Type Sub-Sub-types?

On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür wrote:

> I think the negotiation of the (serialization) format and the used
> ontologies should be independent. So I think an extra header should be
> used to indicate preferences on vocabularies,

There is also Content-Features that could serve as a starting point...

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2912.html

Jan


> the server should then
> attempt to express things using terms of the preferred vocabularies
> wherever possible. There was A discussion on Swig about semantic
> content negotiation [1]
> 
> Cheers,
> Reto
> 
> 1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2006Jul/0062.html
> 
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Erik Hetzner <erik.hetzner@ucop.edu> wrote:
>> At Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:27:36 +0200,
>> Jan Algermissen wrote:
>>> I usually address the subclassing issue (which is primarily an issue
>>> of expressing a client side capability of expectation, IMHO) with
>>> a profile parameter on the media type(s) in the Accept header:
>>> 
>>> Accept: application/rdf+xml;profile=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
>>> 
>>> The server can respond with just Content-Type: application/rdf+xml or,
>>> if desired, with a 406 Not Acceptable if the profile 'request' cannot
>>> be satisfied.
>> 
>> I want this solution to work, but I have some concerns.
>> 
>> Is there a profile parameter defined for the application/rdf+xml media
>> type? (I don’t believe there is.) Or is profile considered an HTTP
>> accept-param? If the latter, shouldn’t it follow a q param? Futher, if
>> it is an accept-param, am I right in thinking that the Content-Type
>> response will not return the profile value?
>> 
>> best,
>> Erik Hetzner
>> 
>> ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library
>> ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3
>> 
>> 
> 

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