Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

On 6/17/13 6:21 PM, Luca Matteis wrote:
> This still doesn't answer my initial question "How do you produce 
> Linked Data without RDF?".

What makes you conclude that 
<http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/Public/Linked%20Data%20Resources/linked-data-rdf-test2.ttl> 
is a document bearing RDF content? How have you arrived at that conclusion?

> At this point I'm going with other members of the community stating 
> that you're simply avoiding the evidence. The evidence shows that 
> indeed you need RDF to produce Linked Data. So RDF is strictly needed 
> in order to produce Linked Data.

Cognitive Dissonance is not going to get you out of this one.

What makes 
<http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/Public/Linked%20Data%20Resources/linked-data-rdf-test2.ttl> 
an RDF document, specifically. I am sure you know that RDF did not 
invent the Triple! Neither did it invent the References as Identifiers.

My document has:

1. HTTP URIs
2. HTTP URIs with and without fragment identifiers
3. 3-tuple (triple) statements.

Nothing above is unique to RDF. Not a single thing !!

My document is 100% compatible with any version of TimBL's Linked Data 
memes.

Kingsley
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Melvin Carvalho 
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 17 June 2013 23:26, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com
>     <mailto:david@3roundstones.com>> wrote:
>
>         Nicely done, Kingsley!  That is an excellent exploration of
>         the boundaries.
>
>         Yes, it is RDF (of course), but crappy RDF since the
>         predicates are hardly likely to be reused by others or even
>         mapped via owl:sameAs.
>
>         Yes, it is Linked Data, but crappy Linked Data because it
>         doesn't link out to anything.  The bogus Content-Type is
>         something we have (almost) all learned to live with.
>
>         Crappy != broken, but it is still crappy ;-)
>
>
>     +1
>
>
>         Regards,
>         Dave
>         --
>         http://about.me/david_wood
>
>
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>         On Jun 17, 2013, at 14:17, Kingsley Idehen
>         <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>
>>         On 6/17/13 1:35 PM, Luca Matteis wrote:
>>>         It's number 3 because it's RDF (Turtle) and it's using URIs
>>>         to describe things. And links to other data.
>>         Let's put aside the Turtle assumption debate since it (like
>>         Media Type) doesn't have any concrete bearing on this exercise.
>>
>>         How about the document denoted by this URI/URL:
>>         <http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/Public/Linked%20Data%20Resources/linked-data-rdf-test2.ttl>
>>         <http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/Public/Linked%20Data%20Resources/linked-data-rdf-test2.ttl>
>>
>>
>>         Is that an RDF document? If not, is it a Linked Data
>>         document? Or is it neither?
>>
>>
>>         Kingsley
>>>
>>>         Can you make your point more clearly rather than answering
>>>         my question with other questions?
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Kingsley Idehen
>>>         <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             On 6/17/13 1:09 PM, Luca Matteis wrote:
>>>>             What makes it RDF is that you can take the contents of
>>>>             this URL and stick it in any popular RDF parser and it
>>>>             will parse it for you.
>>>>
>>>>             It's still bad quality Linked Data because it's missing
>>>>             mime-types. Anyway back to my initial question "How do
>>>>             you produce Linked Data without RDF?"
>>>
>>>             To cleanup this experiment, here's a URI/URL that
>>>             denotes a version of the file (note: there where some
>>>             errors in the initial document e.g.  "." where I meant
>>>             to have ";") on my server:
>>>
>>>             <http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/Public/Linked%20Data%20Resources/linked-data-rdf-test.ttl>
>>>             <http://kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/Public/Linked%20Data%20Resources/linked-data-rdf-test.ttl>
>>>             .
>>>
>>>             You can also just copy and past the content to your
>>>             document to yours.
>>>
>>>             Back to the question and exercise, what's the defining
>>>             characteristic that makes either of our documents 
>>>             (denoted by their respective URI/URLs) RDF documents,
>>>             specifically? Here are some document type options to
>>>             select from:
>>>
>>>             1. Structured Data
>>>             2. Structured Data adhering to Linked Data principles
>>>             3. RDF based Structured Data adhering to Linked Data
>>>             principles.
>>>
>>>
>>>             Note, I am not expecting Media Types to play any role in
>>>             this experiment.
>>>
>>>             Kingsley
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>             On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Kingsley Idehen
>>>>             <kidehen@openlinksw.com
>>>>             <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                 On 6/17/13 12:51 PM, Luca Matteis wrote:
>>>>>                 Done: http://codepad.org/7REcSynR/raw.txt
>>>>>
>>>>>                 That's still RDF so I don't get your point.
>>>>
>>>>                 Really? How?
>>>>
>>>>                 curl -I http://codepad.org/7REcSynR/raw.txt
>>>>
>>>>                 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>>>                 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:57:10 GMT
>>>>                 Server: Apache
>>>>                 Pragma: no-cache
>>>>                 Cache-Control: no-cache
>>>>                 Content-Disposition: attachment
>>>>                 Content-Length: 427
>>>>                 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                 What makes it RDF?
>>>>
>>>>                 Related:
>>>>
>>>>                 1.
>>>>                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity–attribute–value_model
>>>>                 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_model>
>>>>                 -- EAV
>>>>                 2. http://bit.ly/YTdz3N - Peter Chen's circa. 1976
>>>>                 dissertation that covers unified views of data
>>>>                 (note: a simple example of these concepts that even
>>>>                 predate the World Wide Web).
>>>>
>>>>                 Kingsley
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Kingsley Idehen
>>>>>                 <kidehen@openlinksw.com
>>>>>                 <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>                     On 6/17/13 11:02 AM, Luca Matteis wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                     On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Kingsley
>>>>>>                     Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com
>>>>>>                     <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                         Linked Data is also something you can
>>>>>>                         produce, without any knowledge of RDF.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                     What do you mean "without any knowledge of
>>>>>>                     RDF"? How do you produce Linked Data without
>>>>>>                     RDF? Please give us an example before making
>>>>>>                     statements on behalf of the community.
>>>>>                     If you recall (earlier today) I presented you
>>>>>                     with a simple exercise which would answer the
>>>>>                     question you've posed above, demonstrably.
>>>>>
>>>>>                     Here's that I posted:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                     Webby Structured Data:
>>>>>
>>>>>                     Simply copy and paste the following to a Web
>>>>>                     accessible location (URL) and then share the
>>>>>                     URL via a response to this mail. If you can't
>>>>>                     then simply let me know and I'll do that for you.
>>>>>
>>>>>                     ## Structured Data Representation using Turtle
>>>>>                     Notation ##
>>>>>
>>>>>                     <>
>>>>>                     a <#Document> .
>>>>>                     <#mentions> "Linked Data" , "Linked Data",
>>>>>                     "Semantic Web", "Inference Reasoning", "Web".
>>>>>                     <#comment> "A mailing list post about Linked
>>>>>                     Data and RDF".
>>>>>                     <#seeAlso>
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_data>
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_data>,
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/RDF>
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/RDF>,
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web>
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web>,
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web>
>>>>>                     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/World_Wide_Web>
>>>>>
>>>>>                     ## End ##
>>>>>
>>>>>                     What is the above to you?
>>>>>
>>>>>                     1. Webby Structured Data -- constructable
>>>>>                     using basic knowledge of Entity Relationship
>>>>>                     Models e.g. EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value based
>>>>>                     structured data representation)
>>>>>                     2. RDF based Structured Data -- i.e.,
>>>>>                     structured data endowed with machine- and
>>>>>                     human-comprehensible entity relationship
>>>>>                     semantics as defined by RDF (a framework).
>>>>>
>>>>>                     Related:
>>>>>
>>>>>                     1.
>>>>>                     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity–attribute–value_model
>>>>>                     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%96attribute%96value_model>
>>>>>                     -- EAV
>>>>>                     2. http://bit.ly/YTdz3N - Peter Chen's circa.
>>>>>                     1976 dissertation that covers unified views of
>>>>>                     data (note: a simple example of these concepts
>>>>>                     that even predate the World Wide Web).
>>>>>
>>>>>                     -- 
>>>>>
>>>>>                     Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>                     Kingsley Idehen	
>>>>>                     Founder & CEO
>>>>>                     OpenLink Software
>>>>>                     Company Web:http://www.openlinksw.com  <http://www.openlinksw.com/>
>>>>>                     Personal Weblog:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen  <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
>>>>>                     Twitter/Identi.ca  <http://Identi.ca>  handle: @kidehen
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>>>>>                     LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>                 Kingsley Idehen	
>>>>                 Founder & CEO
>>>>                 OpenLink Software
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>             Founder & CEO
>>>             OpenLink Software
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>>         -- 
>>
>>         Regards,
>>
>>         Kingsley Idehen	
>>         Founder & CEO
>>         OpenLink Software
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