hashlinks vs trusty URIs

I've started evaluating the difference between hashlinks
<https://w3c-ccg.github.io/hashlink/> (a CCG/IETF) work item and a similar
(but older) effort I recently ran across, referred to as "trusty URIs
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5775.pdf>" (Tobias Kuhn and Michel Dumontier).

The intent seems to be similar, they are both compatible with ni-URIs, but
there may be one compelling difference:

For trusty URIs, there are two modes: one for byte-level file content and
the other that operates on RDF graphs. The relevant text in the hashlinks
spec is a little ambiguous in that regard -- I imagine it may similarly
enable both modes, but I'm not sure.

As context, in the EDU space, there is very strong interest in use of
linked data
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pt-VNnjoYgl23Mlu0Tjyax5RgANPBfDijERz0SNYfSo/edit#heading=h.2fde5vhrnfjo>,
and I think we are more likely to be interested in operations on RDF
graphs, so this isn't just a pedantic exercise. :)
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5775.pdf>

Interested in any additional context.
Thanks,
Kim


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*Kim Hamilton Duffy*

Senior Technology Architect

*MIT Open Learning | Digital Credentials Consortium*

kimhd@mit.edu