- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:28:57 -0400
- To: Stephane Fellah <fellahst@gmail.com>
- CC: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
On 06/20/2013 12:50 PM, Stephane Fellah wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with Luca's viewpoint. The W3C standard RDF model (a.k.a triple > model) is one of most fundamental piece of the technology stack defining > Linked Data (along with URIs and HTTP). I think it is important to make > understand the community that Linked Data can be serialized into > different representations (Turtle, RDF/XML, JSON-LD, N3, NTriples, > TrigG, and any future formats) , as long as they are isomorphic to RDF > model (meaning data can be converted to a set of triples and identifiers > are based on URIs). If the data are NOT convertible to RDF model, I do > not consider it as Linked Data. To make the system works, you need some > set of standards on which everyone agree: HTTP, URIs, RDF are > fundamental to Linked Data. Saying we do not need RDF model for Linked > Data is like saying we do not need URL or HTTP for the web of documents. +1 Very well put. David Booth
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