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

On 1/25/13 10:54 AM, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> * Wilde, Erik <Erik.Wilde@emc.com> [2013-01-25 10:29-0500]
>> hello eric.
>>
>> On 2013-01-24 19:30 , "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org> wrote:
>>> text/ldp-container+turtle
>>> text/ldp-resource+turtle
>>> and of course the bastard combo text/ldp-cresource+turtle
>> please keep in mind that you don't have to (and in fact shouldn't) define
>> a new media type for each "kind" or resource you're exposing. the media
>> type identifies the protocol, and thus covers whatever "kinds" of
>> resources you are exchanging in the scope of the protocol. for
>> understanding what you're actually dealing with, REST says that resources
>> need to be "self-describing", and in the REST sense of this word in this
>> context, this simply means that you look at the "protocol identifier" (the
>> media type) and the resource (the "payload"), and then you know what
>> you're dealing with.
> yeah, these were mostly tongue-in-cheek media types, intended to
> illustrate that we might have some things which do double dute.
>
>
>> some media types (such as atompub, see
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023#section-12.1) have felt the need (for
>> protocol reasons) to make resource "kinds" identifiable in the media type,
>> but then the preferred route is to use media type parameters instead of
>> minting individual media types.
> interesting point. the Turtle media type currently has only a charset
> optional parameter. it could also have, e.g. (flame bait follows):
>
>    primaryType — this parameter identifies the intended purpose of the
>    graph encoded in a Turtle document. This could be, for instance, a
>    product description or a purchase order.
>
> this would invite also a primaryNode.
>
> some folks here might find that a practical way to route messages to
> the appropriate handler. the RDF WG, which pretty much owns the media
> type, may well burn me as a heretic for even proposing this.

This is all about an application of RDF rather than RDF itself. I don't 
see this as heretic, in this context :-)


Kingsley
>
>
>
>> cheers,
>>
>> dret.
>>


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