Problem beyond the design decision of HttpRange-14

Dear all,

No matter what is the final design decision of the HttpRange-14, I think
another problem we may need to address is how to explain to the data
publisher that they need two URIs to publish a data and its description. In
the original document Cool URIs for Semantic Web, it only explained what to
do, but not why we need to do it.

Unlike the Web, when publishing a webpage, we get immediate results
and benefits, it may not have clear incentive to web-masters to implement
so many extra things to serve their data with two URIs.

How can we determine that W3C has the best design decision of the
HttpRange-14? The solution needs to solve the fundamental cases (to enable
publishing metadata of the webpage, a data and its description
etc), compatible with the existing web architecture, meanwhile having
minimum impact on existing published links. But I think most importantly,
the solution need to be simple to be adopted.

I have done some preliminary evaluation work on the social adoption of the
existing linked data publishing mechanisms, we found that there is
relatively high error rate in publishing of the Linked Data.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4138729/paper/dereference_iswc2011.pdf  We then
implemented a validator http://www.hyperthing.org/ to demonstrate the
concept.

I hope this helps to make the new design decision,
Yang Yang

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