Re: Exciting changes at Data.Southampton.ac.uk!

I'll put this onto our todo list, just under "content negotiation on 
Gopher URIs"

Joking aside, we may need to use the open data in pages created in 
SharePoint. A SOAP wrapper for SPARQL may well be the best solution to 
this...

Barry Norton wrote:
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> Congratulations on the move to PDF, but shouldn't these resources 
> really be SOAP-resolvable?
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> It's so backwards-looking merely to rely on HTTP when there's a whole 
> stack of technologies you could employ here...
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> Barry
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>
> On 01/04/2011 09:23, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>> After some heated debate after the backlash against me for my recent 
>> comments about PDF, I've been forced to shift to recommending PDF as 
>> the preferred format for the data.southampton.ac.uk site, both for 
>> publishing and importing data.
>>
>> There are some issues with this and I know not every one will be 
>> happy with the decision; it wasn't easy to make... but on reflection, 
>> however, it's the right one. It is much easier for non programmers 
>> (the majority of people) to work with PDF documents and they are 
>> supported by pretty much every platform you can think of with a 
>> choice of tools and the benefit of familiarity.
>>
>> We've provided a wrapper around 4store to make PDF the default output 
>> mode:
>> http://sparql.data.southampton.ac.uk/?query=PREFIX+soton%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fid.southampton.ac.uk%2Fns%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+foaf%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fxmlns.com%2Ffoaf%2F0.1%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+skos%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2004%2F02%2Fskos%2Fcore%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+geo%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2003%2F01%2Fgeo%2Fwgs84_pos%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+rdfs%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+org%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2Fns%2Forg%23%3E%0D%0APREFIX+spacerel%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdata.ordnancesurvey.co.uk%2Fontology%2Fspatialrelations%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+ep%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Feprints.org%2Fontology%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+dct%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fdc%2Fterms%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+bibo%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fontology%2Fbibo%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+owl%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2002%2F07%2Fowl%23%3E%0D%0A%0D%0ASELECT+%3Fs+WHERE+{%0D%0A++++%3Fs+%3Fp+%3Fo+.%0D%0A}+LIMIT+10&output=pdf&jsonp=#results_table 
>>
>>
>> And most information URIs can now be resolved to PDF, but we are 
>> sticking to HTML as the default (for now)
>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/products-and-services/FreshFruit.pdf
>>
>> The full details and rationale are on our data blog
>> http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/2011/04/01/pdf-selected-as-interchange-format/E 
>>
>>
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Received on Friday, 1 April 2011 08:09:11 UTC