ConNegging on Description Pages (was RE: Southampton Pub data as linked open data)

Hi Kingsley,

If I've understood you correctly, you're suggesting that the HTML
document about a pub should 303 to the RDF/XML document about the pub if
RDF/XML is requested, and vice versa. (please correct me if I've
misunderstood)

Is conneging on description pages desirable? i.e. if I request
http://revyu.com/people/tom/about/rdf
in my regular browser (e.g. vanilla Firefox), should I be redirected to
http://revyu.com/people/tom/about/html ?

I don't think so, for the simple reason that I might be a developer
wishing to study/debug the RDF.

Thoughts?

Tom.

P.S. Of course <link .../> tags in the HTML header and foaf:page triples
in the RDF are highly desirable, this question is just about conneg on
URIs of Info Resources.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-lod-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kingsley Idehen
> Sent: 28 July 2008 16:47
> To: John Goodwin
> Cc: public-lod@w3.org; semantic-web@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Southampton Pub data as linked open data
  
> John,
> 
> I am getting:
> 
> curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" 
> http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/description/pub1
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:25:49 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
> mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
> Last-Modified: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:52:16 GMT
> ETag: "1a0322-6ba4-453036415cc00"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 27556
> Content-Type: text/html
> 
> I am requesting the RDF/XML representation of the information 
> resource in question via it's URI, but not getting a redirect 
> to the RDF representation at:
> <http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/data/pub1> .
> 
> You're 200 OK in it's current form throws off RDF User Agents 
> such as our RDF Browser [1] and Data Explore extension for 
> Firefox [2] which will do the following:
> 
> 1. Ask for an RDF/XML representation via Content Negotiation 
> 2. If we don't locate an RDF information resource from step 
> 1;  we will scan for <link rel="relevant-predicate" .../>, 
> GRDDL, RDFa 3. Normalize 4. Expose RDF graph
> 
> We don't expect a 200 OK for an RDF requests with the 
> resource in question being an HTML representation, so right 
> now, we never get to discover the RDF information resource.
> 
> Solution: just 303 to the RDF information resource that 
> matches RDF representation request.
> 
> Then I should see: http://tinyurl.com/5he54t by starting at: 
> http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/description/pub1
> instead of what I see currently at: http://tinyurl.com/6lkuaj
> 
> Links:
> 
> 1. http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2
> 2. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8062
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kingsley Idehen	      Weblog: 
> http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
> President & CEO 
> OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 08:20:05 UTC