Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

Agreed. It always amuses me to hear how Web/REST is not coupled to HTTP.

Applying for a Web job without HTML/HTTP skills is like applying for a 
Linked Data job without RDF/HTTP.

The rest might be interesting to some, but is of zero practical consequence.

Barry


On 17/06/13 13:34, Luca Matteis 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 <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 6/17/13 8:17 AM, Luca Matteis wrote:
>>
>>     On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kingsley Idehen
>>     <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         The Web isn't about being draconian or tightly coupled to
>>         anything.
>>
>>
>>     But the Web *IS* tightly coupled to HTTP! Why can't Linked Data
>>     then be tightly coupled to RDF?
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     -- 
>
>     Regards,
>
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>     Founder & CEO
>     OpenLink Software
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