- From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:55:59 -0700
- To: Cory Casanave <cory-c@modeldriven.com>
- CC: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, public-egov-ig@w3.org
hello cory. > Interesting statement: architectural style of the web, or that of the > semantic web. i think that distinction is at the core of many discussions around the narrow or the wide interpretation of what linked data is. i have always thought of myself to work on linked data, but some assume i don't, because i am not following the RDF approach. > As it asserts that SEMWEB is distinct from the architectural style of > the web where as I have thought of SEMWEB as applying the architectural > style of the web to data. nope. the web tells you to link resources, to link resources in a way that uses a uniform interface, and to expect to interact with resources through that interface in a way that allows you to inspect them and then follow links found in them, to interact with more resources. you can use whatever representation you like, as long as you make representations of resources available in self-describing hyperlinked ways. semweb introduces more constraints on representations (RDF is the only acceptable metamodel), and removes the uniform interface constraint.so you end up with a style that makes it easier to seamlessly follow the linked graph, because there is only one metamodel, but you cannot as easily have non-read interactions with resources, because there is less granularity in the model, and there is no uniform interface. cheers, dret.
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