- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:20:13 +0100
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, public-grddl-comments@w3.org
On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Danny Ayers wrote: > 2008/8/25 Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>: >> >> On Aug 25, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> I understand that the RDF community believes >> >> No, please, that should *not* be your takeaway. I think I'm a card >> carrying >> RDF community member and I certainly don't believe what follows. I >> think >> it's a bit controversial, actually. (One of the things that drives >> me, >> personally, nuts is the line that RDF is designed for "Follow you >> nose" >> discovery, etc. I don't think it's particularly so designed and I >> don't >> think "follow your nose" is a great thing, by and large.) > > Just for the record, ? It's clear that the pro message got through. I'm pointing out there's a con message. > I think "follow your nose" is the best bit of the > Web, because it allows me to discover new things, related to the > information I have at hand. I don't want to get into a big debate about this. I'll just point out that behaviors while surfing the web don't necessarily work for everything. > Drop links, where is the Web? Links != follow your nose. Encouraging people to dereference (or to write software that dereferences) things like namespaces has turned out not to be such a great idea and, arguably, isn't necessary or helpful. Cheers, Bijan.
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