Re: LDP user story: sharing binary resources and metadata

This sounds very good to me.  As a matter of style, I wonder if starting 
with the user story of the telescope picture to help set context and then 
generalize as "publish both resources and metadata".

Thanks,
Steve Speicher
IBM Rational Software
OSLC - Lifecycle integration inspired by the web -> 
http://open-services.net

Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote on 09/10/2012 09:40:22 AM:

> From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
> To: public-ldp-wg@w3.org, 
> Date: 09/10/2012 09:41 AM
> Subject: LDP user story: sharing binary resources and metadata
> 
> Here is my proposal for a use case relating to sharing binary resources:
> 
> [[
> Very often we need to publish both resources and the metadata that goes 
with
> them. Or inversely the data we publish contains links to binary 
resources 
> such as pictures, videos, or other less data oriented documents (works 
of 
> literature, legal documents, etc...) For the data publishing to be 
complete,
> the binary resources need to be published with the data. Even when the 
> binary resources are the primary concern of publication, the metadata 
that 
> puts it in context is just as essential: when publishing a picture of 
space 
> we need to know which telescope took the picture, which part of the sky 
it 
> was pointing at, what filters were used, which identified stars are 
visible,
> etc... For more personal resources we want to know who appears in the 
> picture, where it was taken, and who can see it. One may for example 
want to
> allow the access control rules to be edited by the people who appear in 
the 
> picture. As such the linked data platform needs to make it possible to 
> publish data and binary resources.
> ]]
> 
> Does that make a good user story/use case?
> 
> Henry
> 
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
> 
>

Received on Monday, 10 September 2012 13:48:04 UTC