Re: ldp-ISSUE-48 (profiles): Profile mechanism is Needed [Linked Data Platform core]

Hi all,

On Jan 31, 2013, at 13:18, "Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group Issue Tracker" <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> ldp-ISSUE-48 (profiles): Profile mechanism is Needed [Linked Data Platform core]
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> http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/track/issues/48
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> Raised by: Henry Story
> On product: Linked Data Platform core
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> It has been argued again and again by Erik Wilde on the mailing list [1] that LDP needs a way to be able to specify what types of triples must appear in a graph for a specific resource. Others have argued that one needs this to specify what type of entity should be POSTed to a server. The notion of profiles has come up as name for specifying this [2].
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> To my knowledge no such things as profiles are defined clearly for RDF currently, and since Erik argues one cannot use ldp on the Web without such a notion - even for publishing at lpd:Container - it is incumbent on the group to develop the mechanisms to specify this for a graph of any type.
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> Either that of course or show/argue that this is in fact mistaken.


Could this problem be addressed by simply requiring that LDP servers either advertise a list of vocabularies they support or a statement that any vocabularies are acceptable?

Regards,
Dave
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> Henry
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> [1]  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ldp-wg/2013Jan/0427.html
>  It needs profiles  "only if LDP wants to be visible on the web as a service."
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> [2] the following mail "What are Profiles?" goes into more detail into what they are
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ldp-wg/2013Jan/0339.html
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