- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:03:55 -0400
- To: public-ldp-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <5021204B.3040603@openlinksw.com>
On 8/7/12 9:53 AM, Ashok Malhotra wrote: > >> Linked Data (upper case) seems to be >> perceived by the majority of people to be based on RDF. > > Not so! In Cloud computing, for example, all the data is stored in XML. But you speak of a markup language as though this is the case for RDF. This is the eternal struggle. RDF left the gate as a format whereas its a framework comprised of model semantics distinct from any specific data format. > A platform has a set of machines which is represented as a collection > of URIs, > Machines have many attributes, such as ports, that are, again, > represented > as collections on URIs. I think of this as Linked Data. Resources > identified > by URIs and collections of URIs. I don't think it matters whether the > syntax is > XML, RDF or JSON. Yes, but I would substitute RDF for RDF/XML (and other formats) in the statement above :-) > > If the LDP WG ends up creating a recommendation on how to deal with > collections > of URIs in REST, for example, that will apply to XML, RDF and JSON Yes! Re. data representation syntaxes and across-the-wire serialization format choices. > > Ashok > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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