Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

On 3/25/12 5:13 AM, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> I agree we shouldn't blame publishers who conflate IRs and NIRs. That is not what happens at the moment. Therefore we need to change something.

They only get blamed when they claim that they are publishing Linked 
Data. If they don't do that nobody will complain. All Structured Data 
isn't Linked Data. All Linked Data is a form Structured Data.

HttpRange-14 findings facilitate the co-existence of Structured Data and 
Linked Data on the Web.

RDF and its family of syntaxes and serialization formats are vehicles 
for constructing resources that bear structured data. The same applies 
to HTML, XML, JSON etc.. None of these syntaxes produce Linked Data 
implicitly, you have to adhere to Linked Data principles for that to 
happen.

The fundamental concern I have right now is that this effort is 
conflating basic Structured Data and the fidelity of Linked Data.

You don't need any kind of revision to HttpRange-14 recommendations to 
enable what has long been reality on the Web. By that I mean: people 
have conflated Names and Addresses via URIs forever. Said conflation is 
only an issue when the end product is inaccurately classified as being 
Linked Data principles compliant.

Linked Data is a different system or dimension of the Web. Without its 
fidelity many critical items become impossible to implement at Web scale:

1. data access by Name reference;
2. equivalence fidelity and inference;
3. distributed verifiable identity;
4. functional read-write-web .

Conflate Names and Addresses and the above simply fail.

Structured Data is growing exponentially on the Web thanks to efforts 
such as schema.org, Facebook Open Graph,  and the emergence of JSON as 
an alternative to XML re., structured data representation syntax. That's 
a good thing. The more Structured Data we have on the Web the easier it 
becomes to explain and demonstrate the unique fidelity and benefits that 
Linked Data introduces.

To conclude, we need to change our tendency to conflate matters since 
all Structured Data != Linked Data. Every time we conflate everything 
gets mucked up and things stall.

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