Re: Publication of scientific research

On 4/24/13 3:39 PM, Daniel Schwabe wrote:
> On the other hand, efforts continue to at least provide metadata in RDF, which has been surprisingly harder to produce year after year without requiring hand coding and customization each time. But we will get there, I hope.
> Just my 2c...
Very important 2 cents :-)

Fear of crafting RDF by hand is the root of many problems. A long time 
ago, it was a major problem thanks to  RDF/XML. Today, thanks to Turtle, 
writing RDF by hand is short cut to demonstrating the fundamental 
benefits of RDF based Linked Data.

Scribbling [1] is a pattern that's vital to the Web in general, sadly, 
you can't really scribble HTML and you absolutely couldn't scribble 
RDF/XML. Another important issue, somewhat forgotten, is the file 
create, save, and share pattern.

In my experience, with our use of RDF based Linked Data in dog-food 
manner [2][3], the combination of crafting Turtle based RDF documents by 
hand and the file create, save, and publish pattern works wonders for 
streamlining data publication, especially when you also factor in ACLs 
based on URIs that denote Agents (e.g., WebID) .

To conclude, it is a new day and a new time for RDF. The problems the 
RDF/XML introduced should really be behind us at this stage. 
Unfortunately, many still conflate RDF/XML and RDF and in the process 
end up dismissing its utility in general.

PDFs should at the very least be accompanied with RDF based metadata 
with regards to scientific publications and event papers etc..


Links:

1. http://bit.ly/Zgw83a -- circa. 2007 presentation where TimBL talks 
about scribbling pattern
2. http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/data/turtle/ -- collection of Turtle 
documents
3. 
http://kingsley.idehen.net/about/html/http/virtuoso.openlinksw.com/data/turtle/Virtuoso7Offers.ttl 
-- HTML based view of the RDF descriptions from one of the Turtle docs
4. http://bit.ly/RJzd9S -- old post about why Turtle is so important to 
RDF based Linked Data (we need a simple notation that covers programmer 
and non programmer profiles i.e., scribblers) .

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