- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:42:27 -0500
- To: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Tom Heath <tom.heath@talis.com>, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, bill.roberts@planet.nl, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Toby A Inkster wrote: > On 25 Jun 2009, at 21:18, Pat Hayes wrote: > >> If [RDF] requires people to tinker with files with names starting >> with a dot [...] then the entire SWeb architecture is fundamentally >> broken. > > RDF doesn't. Apache does. I should have said, if the process of getting RDF published requires people... Pat > > Many hosts do have front ends for configuring Apache, allowing > redirects to be set up and content-types configured by filling in > simple web forms. But there are such a variety of these tools with > different capabilities and different interfaces that it would be > difficult to produce advice suitable for them all, so instead > ".htaccess" recipes are provided instead. > > That said, there are a couple of steps that Martin could remove from > his recipe and still be promoting reasonably good practice: > > Step 5a - this rewrites <http://example.org/semanticweb> to <http://example.org/semanticweb.rdf > >. Other than aesthetics, there's no real reason to do this. Yes, > I've read timbl's old Cool URIs document, and understand about not > wanting to include hints of file format in a URI. But realistically, > this file is going to always include some RDF - perhaps in a non-RDF/ > XML serialisation, but I don't see anything inappropriate about > serving other RDF serialisations using a ".rdf" URL, provided the > correct MIME type is used. > > Step 5b - the default Apache mime.types file knows about application/ > rdf+xml, so this should be unnecessary. Perhaps instead have a > GoodRelations "validator" which checks that the content type is > correct, and only suggests this when it is found to be otherwise. > > Steps 3 and 4 could be amalgamated into a single "validate your RDF > file" step using the aforementioned validator. The validator would > be written so that, upon a successful validation, it offers single- > click options to ping semweb search engines, and Yahoo (via a RDF/ > XML->DataRSS converter). > > With those adjustments, the recipe would just be: > > 1. Upload your RDF file. > 2. Add a rel="meta" link to it. > 3. Validate using our helpful tool. > > -- > Toby A Inkster > <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> > <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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