Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

On 17 June 2013 14:34, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Come on! If you're building something that works like the Web but isn't
> using HTTP, then it's *not* the Web. It's something else that has similar
> dynamics to the Web (like, I dunno, a gazillion of other things?).
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:
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>>  On 6/17/13 8:17 AM, Luca Matteis wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:
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>>> The Web isn't about being draconian or tightly coupled to anything.
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>> But the Web *IS* tightly coupled to HTTP! Why can't Linked Data then be
>> tightly coupled to RDF?
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>> The Web isn't tightly coupled to HTTP.
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>> HTTP is an effective route to a global Web.
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>> The magic is in the URI, the ability to provide abstraction that enables
>> the loose coupling of data access protocols and data representation formats.
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>> FWIW -- when we started releasing Linked Data (at the start of this
>> journey) we did so using resolvable URIs for a variety of schemes, not just
>> HTTP. Even today, in the context of Web-scale verifiable identity, we
>> produce Linked Data solutions that don't mandate HTTP scheme URIs while
>> actually exploiting the kind of entity relationship fidelity that RDF
>> delivers.
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>> The beauty of the World Wide Web is that it is actually loosely coupled
>> at its architectural core. HTTP is a productive short-cut to the Web due
>> its increasing ubiquity.
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>> --
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen	
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>> OpenLink Software
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