- From: <john.nj.davies@bt.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 13:44:51 +0100
- To: <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, <public-lod@w3.org>
Marvellous - clearly the way forward!
Regards,
Pauline Yorlegg
-----Original Message-----
From: public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Gutteridge
Sent: 01 April 2011 08:23
To: <public-lod@w3.org>
Subject: Exciting changes at Data.Southampton.ac.uk!
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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Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
Received on Friday, 1 April 2011 12:45:33 UTC