Re: the necessity of describing responses in-band

Hi John,

> However there is plenty of interesting stuff in <link> elements.

Interesting stuff that is not in <body>?

> In the hyrda:Collection in the examples, how come you don't use hydra:member to
> link the
> collection to the members.

The examples aren't necessarily complete;
this link could indeed be made explicitly
and it's perhaps a good idea for many scenarios.

> Another point I'd like to raise is the use of quads rather than triples.
> As you are most likely aware there are no agreed formal semantics for RDF
> datasets [1].

Yes and that's quite horrible…
anybody knows why the graph IRI is only a syntactical construct?

Seemed much more logical to make it the name of the graph,
would give the term "named graph" a more logical meaning.
And if you want a graph that has nothing to do with the name,
just pick a different name then anyway.

> But do you think that using quads would come at the risk of interoperability
> issues?

Hard to predict, but I don't think so.

> What would happen if someone did a LOAD operation of one of these quads
> documents into a store?

Nothing bad, it seems. Do you think of scenarios where things go wrong?

> Would it make sense to state the metadata graph is a subgraph of the main graph?

I wouldn't do that; the main graph is data for me.

> http://breweryld.semaku.com/beer/8GpObe
> identifies the document (information resource) and URI like
> http://breweryld.semaku.com/beer/8GpObe#id
> identifies the thing described in the document.

Yes, we certainly need to distinguish.

Best,

Ruben

Received on Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:01:11 UTC