ISSUE-66: LinkedData™

hello.

i raised this issue on github, but then markus pointed out that 
discussions should be on the mailing list, and not on github. so here's 
the issue:

https://github.com/HydraCG/Specifications/issues/66

since i have a lot of people asking this question, i am wondering if it 
would be helpful (and appropriate) to specifically define linked data as 
the RDF flavor of linked data (with this latter one being the more 
generic concept of just "data that is linked"). we as a community have 
had this discussion ad nauseam, but not everybody is following the 
community closely. i don't want to start a discussion about the topic 
itself, i am simply suggesting to make it clear to readers not knowing 
the history of the term that the spec is specifically about the RDF 
flavor. that helps people a lot, at least those people i talk to that 
get confused about rather generic terms such as "linked data" or "web of 
data", and the more constrained ways in which the communities are using 
those terms. my personal history about this goes back to 
http://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2009/11/the-linked-data-police.html, 
and if people think it would be appropriate and helpful to add some 
clarification, i can contribute a paragraph or two.

thanks,

dret.

Received on Monday, 4 August 2014 20:49:48 UTC