- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 22:28:46 +0100
- To: Public DWBP WG <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>, "Tandy, Jeremy" <jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk>
Dear all, As the WG is well aware, Erik has been flying the flag for Webby data/hypermedia. It took me a while to work out just what Erik was getting at, mainly because I have been somewhat word blind. When you've seen a document as much as we've seen the BP doc, you think things are there that aren't and vice versa. It was Jeremy Tandy (SDW and CSV WG) pointed out to me last week what was missing - which is what I think Erik has been saying for a while. Erik says it differently but I dare to hope that what I've suggested as a new BP addresses his issue. We had a BP that said "use persistent URIs as identifiers". And then it said *Datasets* must be identified by persistent URIs. What it didn't say was that data points within the data should also be URIs where possible. I've drafted a BP to cover this, see http://philarcher1.github.io/dwbp/bp.html#identifiersWithinDatasets For those who were there, this is the short form of my over-long talk in Sao Paulo the other day ;-) The BP emphasises the importance of links between things that are identified. It does this with reference to the Web in general and then cites *both* 5 stars of linked data and Erik's words on hypermedia as examples of what this means. @Erik - is that doc going to stay on GitHub? Any chance it might find a more stable/permanent home? I really don't like linking to GH in a W3C Rec track document. I very much doubt this BP will go through unchanged, but I've had a go at drafting it and have created the pull request. I hope the WG will discuss it and not just merge it. HTH Phil. -- Phil Archer W3C Data Activity Lead http://www.w3.org/2013/data/ http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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