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

On 31 Jan 2013, at 23:50, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2013, at 13:41, "Wilde, Erik" <Erik.Wilde@emc.com> wrote:
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>> hello david.
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>> On 2013-01-31 19:27 , "David Wood" <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:
>>> 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]
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/track/issues/48
>>>> 
>>>> 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?
>> 
>> could you say in a little more detail what you have in mind? advertising
>> vocabularies on the web is done by advertising media types, which is what
>> the original issue was about. if you refer to an RDF-specific mechanism of
>> advertising vocabularies, then that may be unnecessary because the
>> visibility issue is mostly about making LDP visible and discoverable on
>> the web level, and not on the RDF level.
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> I had in mind a VoID extension, but there are other ways.

You mean "Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary" ?
   
   http://www.w3.org/TR/void/

Thanks for the pointer. ( a bit diffult to search for on the web :-)

I don't know what can be done with this, or if it would be the right tool.
Can it be used to specify something like:

 a awol:Entry document should contain an awol:id, and awol:content, etc...

Mind you, I suppose we can't really progress here unless we have clear use cases
of what is needed. So the problem space needs to be clarified first.


Henry

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> Dave
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>> 
>> cheers,
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>> dret.
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