Re: ISSUE-66: LinkedDataT

Hi Erik,

>> I thought the only people who cared about Linked Data
>> were those in the Semantic Web community. My bad!
> 
> that's painfully circular.

Forgive my ignorance; I came late to the game
(and apparently was never told the backstory).

> - the REST community cares a lot about linking data, because that's one of their key architectural principles (probably the most important one).

linking data is, for me, key to self-descriptive responses, which are vital to REST.

I always found the Linked Data principles (even minus the RDF)
quite similar to the uniform interface principles:
http://ruben.verborgh.org/phd/semantics/#the-hypermedia-connection

> back in 2009, we dared to call this Linked Data and were told we shouldn't.

Perhaps the SemWeb community shouldn't have claimed the term in the first place…
A bit arrogant to claim to be the only one linking data (while others have done it for years).

> - if you define Linked Data to be exclusively based by SemWeb technologies, then it's not really surprising that only the SemWeb community cares about it.

Sure.
It's just how I've always heard it defined; probably because that's where I was.
Clearly I spent too much time with the same people :-)

> i happen to think that this unnecessarily creates a separation between communities that actually should talk more about principles than pitching technologies.

Oh well, in the first place, both communities should be concerned about getting things to work.
But that seems more a problem on the SemWeb side :-)

Hence my efforts here BTW.
I believe in hypermedia and machines that can interpret responses.

> but it seems that both bubbles are doing just fine even when separate, so i have accepted that fact. but for people living in neither bubble, the situation can be much more confusing than for us bubble-dwellers. that's really all i wanted to point out.

+1. I learned a lot today (and almost got into the danger zone).

Thanks,

Ruben

Received on Tuesday, 5 August 2014 16:17:14 UTC