Re: Some Slides which contain my Observations and Insights about REST

Hello Kingsley,

many thanks for your thoughts.
I have rephrased [1] the respective slides a little bit
and hope it now also captures your view.

Greets, Thomas

[1] 
https://github.com/vanthome/rest-api-essay-presentation/commit/96dea00306a1dc8247bb9901eb7ab90bc6952fd5 


On 01/15/2015 02:12 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 1/15/15 5:29 AM, Thomas Hoppe wrote:
>> I like your rationale why RDF also adds value if its used as data 
>> model for applications.
>> Also, this "Babelization" issue you mention is a good point.
>> I added a slide "What we gain from using RDF" to highlight these. 
> Hi Thomas,
>
> What you gain from RDF is a Language (system of signs, syntax, and 
> semantics) for encoding and decoding of information, without any 
> platform (operating system, application, data serialization format, 
> actual content creation notation) lock-in..
>
> RDF enables the construction of the digital equivalent of natural 
> language sentences.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> [1] http://www.slideshare.net/kidehen/understanding-29894555/16 -- 
> about relationships
> [2] http://www.slideshare.net/kidehen/understanding-29894555/55 -- 
> about natural language and data
> [3] http://bit.ly/1aNuWca -- original Web design doc tweaked with live 
> hyperlinks (illustrates retrospective nature of what RDF open standard 
> formalizes)
> [4] http://bit.ly/world-wide-web-25-years-later -- world wide web, 25 
> years later.
>