- From: Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:37:53 -0400
- To: "\"Martin J. D?rst\"" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>, Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>, Felix Sasaki <felix.sasaki@dfki.de>, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>, public-xg-lld@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Based on Martin's clarifications and Karen's point that the readership of
this report is likely to understand a reference to Unicode, I propose [1]:
*Linked Data*. "Linked Data" refers to data published in accordance with
principles [2] designed to facilitate linkages among datasets, element
sets, and value vocabularies. Linked Data uses (Web) Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URIs) [3] as globally unique identifiers for any kind of
resources -- analogously to the library world's identifiers for authority
control -- and provides data using standards such as the Resource
Description Framework (RDF) [4]. Note that by definition, URIs include
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) [5] -- Web addresses [6] that
support the non-Latin scripts of Unicode [7]. Linked Data defines
relationships between things -- relationships that can be used for
navigating between, or integrating, information from multiple sources.
Note:
-- This explanation is actually shorter than what was there before.
-- Deleted "(Web)" from "(Web) Uniform Resource Identifiers". We had put it in
because we wanted to make clear that URIs were Web identifiers, but this point
is now made implicitly by the sentence that follows, which refers to "Web
addresses".
-- Deleted the acronyms "LD", "LOD", and "LLD" from the Scope section. These date
from a time when we were using the abbreviations elsewhere in the report, but as
far as I can tell, none of these acronyms are currently being used anywhere else.
-- I am aware that "non-Latin" scripts is a simplification, but nobody challenged
that wording in previous iterations. I'm assuming that for the intended audience
of this report, "non-ASCII" might require additional explanation.
Tom
[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/index.php?title=Scope&diff=6368&oldid=6360
[2] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
[4] http://www.w3.org/RDF/
[5] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987
[6] http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/
[7] http://unicode.org
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Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
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