Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

On 17 June 2013 14:49, Barry Norton <barry.norton@ontotext.com> wrote:

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> Agreed. It always amuses me to hear how Web/REST is not coupled to HTTP.
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> Applying for a Web job without HTML/HTTP skills is like applying for a
> Linked Data job without RDF/HTTP.
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> The rest might be interesting to some, but is of zero practical
> consequence.
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It's simply about modularity and separations of concerns.  For many people
the internet and the web are the same thing, and in fact the distinction
makes nor practical difference to their lives.  But for those architecting
systems, good engineering principles can be the margin between success and
failure.


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> Barry
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> On 17/06/13 13:34, Luca Matteis wrote:
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>  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,
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>> Kingsley Idehen	
>> Founder & CEO
>> OpenLink Software
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