- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:47:55 -0400
- To: Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>
- Cc: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, "community, Linked" <public-lod@w3.org>
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com> wrote: > > So how do we define the line between Documents and Data? Is HTML a document > and RDF data? But then HTML annotated as RDFa becomes data? > No. I think you're losing the "linked" distinction. * You can use the Web to distribute data, but... * ...if that data doesn't name and distinguish entities using URIs, then it isn't (usefully) linked * ...if that data doesn't declare relationships between entities with URI-named predicates, then it isn't (usefully) linked So, given a client's ability to interpret relationships between entities expressed via e.g. RDFa, an HTML page can easily contribute to the Web of Data. John -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. Director, Web Science Operations Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) <http://tw.rpi.edu> <olyerickson@gmail.com> Twitter & Skype: olyerickson
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