Re: Linked Data Platform ISSUE-20: What is the base URI of a POSTed document?

On 10/11/12 8:31 AM, Steve Battle wrote:
> RE: Linked Data Platform ISSUE-20: What is the base URI of a POSTed 
> document?
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> >-----Original Message-----
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> >From: Kingsley Idehen [mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com]
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> >Sent: 11 October 2012 12:30
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> >To: public-ldp-wg@w3.org
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> >Subject: Re: Linked Data Platform ISSUE-20: What is the base URI of a 
> POSTed
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> >document?
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> >
>
> ...
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> >>
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> >> Aside: I think this is pushing it a bit too far - RDF is a data model,
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> >> Turtle a transfer syntax.  The Turtle bytes aren't the data - the RDF
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> >> triples (absolute URIs) are.
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> >
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> >I don't understand your comment above. How are "absolute URIs" the data?
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> >URIs simply denote entities. In this case, they denote entities in an
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> >RDF graph (content in the form of structured data accessible from an
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> >address).
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> >
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> I thinkAndy was saying that that the RDF triples -/containing absolute 
> URIs/- are the data.
>

But that simply isn't accurate.

> Part of the issue is that/r//elative/URIs are not permitted 
> inanRDFmodel, so any relative URIs need to befixed (made absolute) at 
> the time the representation (Turtle) is parsed.
>

I don't know how you arrived at the conclusion that relative URIs are 
not permitted in an RDF model. Again, I've written a whole series of DIY 
Linked Data Deployment notes based on Turtle documents that leverage 
relative URIs. It just works.

Links:

1. http://bit.ly/MgSz3F -- DIY-style Linked Data deployment via an 
Amazon S3 bucket (note: Amazon now gives you 5GB free for one year on 
par with Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, Google Drive etc.. )

2. http://bit.ly/O4LNKf -- How to control your own Web-scale verifiable 
identity (basically about posting a Turtle based profile document to 
collections/folders provided by the services above and then using 
relative URIs for the URI that serves as the WebID re. WebID 
authentication protocol)

3. http://bit.ly/QuFpNA -- various posts about the same thing using a 
variety of storage service providers  .

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