- From: Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:17:15 +0400
- To: Patrick Logan <patrickdlogan@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
Patrick Logan wrote: > But the "Materialize Inferences" is indicating there are forces on the > data provider to perform those inferences over equivalent links at the > source, and to make (materialize) the resulting links explicitly? > > What are those forces that would lean a developer one way or the > other? They seem to be based on the capabilities of the data > _consumer_. Yes, these forces are the actual capabilities of current and likely future Linked Data consumers. Thus, the application of this pattern depends on which consumers a given publisher expects to work with. If you publish data in an intranet where you control all the clients and can ensure that they understand your vocabularies and/or eagerly reason over the data themselves, you don't need this pattern. But for the open LD web, I don't think it's realistic to assume that most clients can handle this, neither now nor in the near future. By the way, this pattern is incremental. One doesn't need to do it right from the beginning. -- Vasiliy Faronov
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