Re: Content negotiation for Turtle files

On 2/6/13 10:00 AM, Richard Light wrote:
> One issue that Turtle will need to address (it may do so already) is 
> software support for free-hand data entry.  While the format is 
> seductively simple-looking (well, it is to the likes of us who grew up 
> on XML/SGML*) it is very easy to make mistakes.
>
> I followed Kingsley's reference to his file space (see his separate 
> reply) and grabbed the file jordan.ttl.

Now, you really have to put my directory listing example in context. 
This isn't about perfect data (such doesn't exist) it is all about the 
ability to create and share data. FWIW -- of all the files to pick, you 
picked the one created by my 12 year old son :-)

> It contains variations in spelling which will mean that some predicate 
> - subject links will fail (e.g. New England Patriots), as will one 
> sameAs link (USA).

Yes, he is a Pats fan, so I used that to pique his interest en route to 
teaching him Turtle.

> There is (I guess) an intended link from USA to N. America, but again 
> this won't fly because USA's continent property is expressed as a 
> string.  If case matters, most of the sameAs references won't work.  
> The properties (predicates) are all local to the document and none of 
> them is defined.  Integer values are typed as strings. Two of the 
> dates are wrong (e.g. Sept 31 783). This is not to criticise 
> Kingsley's typing, but rather to point out that if you are encouraging 
> users to hand-type resources which are to be interpreted as data, then 
> they are going to need some software support if they are not going to 
> be mightily let down by the whole process.  It's a bit like authoring 
> web pages: it doesn't go too badly if you're working in a rich edit 
> box and don't have to add HTML markup yourself.

As I said, you somehow you stumbled across the Turtle doc produced by a 
12 year old. That file was all about getting him going and then showing 
him the implications of his mistakes etc..

My other Turtle tutorials include sample links to profiles documents, 
stuff I like etc.

>
> Richard


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