Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

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

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