Re: Interaction model vs data model

On 1/24/13 12:25 PM, Wilde, Erik wrote:
> hello kingsley.
>
> On 2013-01-24 17:59 , "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>> On 1/24/13 11:40 AM, Wilde, Erik wrote:
>>> i am certainly using "link" in the REST sense: references that clients
>>> are expected to follow in their application flow, and where the behavior
>>> is defined by the protocol (the media type). if that may cause
>>> confusion, what about hyperlink, following the recent trend that one of
>>> the essences of REST is that it's hypermedia?
>> Is a Content-type (or media type) a protocol? Isn't that metadata for
>> the resource denoted by the link? Basically, the description of the data
>> de-referenced by the link.
> any content type that uses links (i.e., goes beyond simple image/gif kind
> of standalone data formats) essentially is a protocol: it defines rules
> how interactions between clients and servers are possible, and what they
> mean.
>
> cheers,
>
> dret.
>
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Bearing in mind your characterization of Content-Type as a protocol. 
What are the Content-Types supported by LDP? Hopefully, we can 
triangulate a route to clarity along this axis. Note, Linked Data 
doesn't need its own Content-Type since it covers RDF model based data 
representation and RESTful data access.

Linked Data is all about denoting entities and their relations using 
HTTP URIs.

Links:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type .
2. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2854 -- HTML .
3. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3870 -- RDF/XML (just one of many 
Content-Types associated with RDF) .


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