- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:23 +0100
- To: Mike Bergman <mike@mkbergman.com>
- Cc: nathan@webr3.org, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
For a definition of Linked Data I'd suggest anything that conforms to timbl's Linked Data expectations: 1. Use URIs as names for things 2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. 3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL) 4. Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things. While Tim only lists RDF & SPARQL as the standards, pragmatically I reckon there's a bit of leeway here, e.g. a HTML document or Atom feed is likely to contain links and data that can be interpreted as RDF - in fact *any* hyperlink could be seen as an RDF statement (maybe <docA> dc:relation <docB>), so depending on the context a looser definition of linked data as "linky stuff" doesn't seem unreasonable. Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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