- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:15:18 -0500
- To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Yves Raimond > That's exactly the approach we took in http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes > and on http://ww.bbc.co.uk/music/beta. We publish linked data by > "just" writing a new view in a Ruby-on-Rails-like framework. The cost > of doing that is really, really extremely low if your web application > is well designed (well designed = one URI per thing). I think most web > developers getting the "the website is the API" slogan know exactly > what to do. I heartily agree with Rob and Yyves. I think will see (and are seeing) more linked-data on the web as it becomes easier for web developers (like the ones at the BBC) to implement data views using their MVC framework-du-jour with an RDBMs backend. The sweet spot for linked-data evangelism seems to be web developers who: - routinely do both data modeling and resource publishing on the web - have real business needs for providing programmatic access to the data behind their web applications - enjoy reading a bit of documentation to guide an implementation Also important to the process are tools like schemaweb and Sindice that enable discovery of what vocabularies are in use on the web; as well as tools like OpenVocab that make it easy to grow vocabularies collaboratively. The incentive that I find attractive about linked-data is that it seems to jive well with WebArch, the self-describing-web [1] and REST to provide a pattern for API development that goes *with* the natural grain of the web. It makes me feel like I'm in good company, and in a growing/vibrant community, which is fun. I don't want to sound overly negative, because I sincerely believe that there is real value in some of these technologies. But I think it will be perceived as a barrier to entry if web developers believe that they MUST implement a SPARQL service, link out to dbpedia, use some kind of triple store, implement a Semantic SiteMap or VoID descriptions to be *really* doing linked-data. I will admit it seems like a (not insurmountable) barrier to me at least. //Ed [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments.html
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