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

On 4/27/15 3:29 PM, Erik Wilde wrote:
> hello kingsley.
>
> On 2015-04-27 12:16, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> Loosely-coupling is dear to my heart (and many other individuals and
>> enterprises) too. Thus, I hope we agree that conflation is antithetical
>> to the cause? If so, then why do you still characterize RDF as a format?
>> It isn't a format, that is simply inaccurate [1]. Characterizing RDF as
>> a format is not a good example of loose-coupling.
>> RDF is a Language, distinct from a variety of notations (RDF-XML,
>> RDF-Turtle, JSON-LD etc..) that can be used to create document content.
>> The aforementioned document content is serializable using a variety of
>> formats (each identifiable using content-types).
>
> sure, and i don't think we disagree on the substance at all. but i 
> don't really know what you actually refer to because the email you 
> quoted does not even contain the word "format".
>
> but i don't think i ever questioned the fact that RDF is a metamodel, 
> and that there are a variety of ways for how it can be represented.
>
> that's no different than other metamodels that pretty much always 
> follow the same pattern. for example, while XML initially specified 
> both the metamodel and one representation, this has changed over the 
> years and for all practical purposes the metamodel now is defined by 
> the infoset/XDM, and possible representations of it are XML and EXI.
>
> cheers,
>
> dret. 

Erik,

I should have been clearer. I was responding to the following excerpt:

"""
3.2.  Describing Web Services

    In the context of this specification, "description" refers to
    information that is intended for machine consumption.  Typical
    formats for this are dictated by the technology underlying the
    service itself, which means that in today's format landscape,
    description formats exist in XML, JSON, RDF, and a variety of other
    languages.
""

 From the document identified by the HTTP URI/URL: 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-service-link-rel-00  :)

"..description formats exist in XML, JSON, RDF, and a variety of other
    languages."

Is confusing.

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