RE: What is the correct media-type for a Hydra specification?

Precisely. 

Jonathan
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From: Erik Wilde [dret@berkeley.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:09 PM
To: Nandana Mihindukulasooriya; public-hydra@w3.org
Cc: Robie, Jonathan
Subject: Re: What is the correct media-type for a Hydra specification?

hello.

On 2015-04-13 23:30, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya wrote:
> To answer your question, as far as I know (as a newbie), there is no
> specific media type defined for hydra api
> documentation. 'application/ld+json' and the content says it is an
> ApiDocumentation using rdf:type. But I would be interested to know where
> you are coming from?

i am guessing it's two worlds colliding. the REST community typically
likes specific media types, so that resources explicitly surface the
models that they represent. it makes resources self-describing *through
their media type*.

RDF, on the other hand, typically only exposes its metamodel and uses
the media type for serialization variants, assuming that saying "it's
RDF" is good enough. this makes resources self-describing *once you
process them*.

cheers,

dret.

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