Re: ISSUE-36: Summary of ways of making containers

Henry, 

Let's say that LDP is the web for robots (i.e. HTML is replaced by RDF, hypermedia -> hyperdata). What is the application out there on the human web which requires container creation, which we also need to offer to our robotic clients ? 

Roger

p.s. I don't think a wiki is an answer, because create container is part of the application. 


On 23 Jan 2013, at 09:41, Henry Story wrote:

> In summary here are the proposed ways of allowing applications to make
> containers:
> 
> 1. Using the MKCOL HTTP Method from WebDAV
> ------------------------------------------
> 
>  - Works like GET/PUT/POST/DELETE . 
>  - Implemented in 100s of millions of clients on MS-Windows, OSX, Linux, and other Unixes for WebDAV
>  - RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-9.3
> 
> 2. POST + server looks at content of graph
> ------------------------------------------
> 
>   if graph posted to ldp:Container </satellite/x4354/> contains the triple
> 
>      <> a ldp:Container .
> 
>   the server makes a container.
> 
> 3. Link from LDPC to factory
> ----------------------------
> 
>   The container </satellite/y500/> contains a link to a factory <makeAnotherContainer> .
> 
>   <> a ldp:Container;
>      ldp:containerFactory <makeAnotherContainer> .
> 
> <makeAnotherContainer> would then be something else besides an LDPR or an LDPC. 
> It  would need to describe itself as a factory and tell you for which collection it was a 
> factory for. One can then POST something into the <makeAnotherContainer> factory in 
> order to create a collection inside the original </satellite/y500/> .
> 
> 4. Link from LDPC to home document that links to factory
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   The container contains a link to the home document
> 
>   <> a ldp:Container;
>      ldp:homeDocument <http://nasa.gov/satellite/y500/homeSweetHome/> .
> 
>   The home document contains a link to the containerFactory
> 
>   <http://nasa.gov/satellite/y500/homeSweetHome/> a ldp:HomeDocument;
>      ldp:containerFactory <makeContainersFor> .
> 
>   Sending a POST to the containerFactory can create a container, but requires 
> telling the container factory which container one wishes to create the container 
> in. The containerFactory needs to describe also which containers it can create 
> a factory for.
> 
> Henry  
> 
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>