On 22 June 2013 03:51, Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com> wrote: > Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Can you do linked data without RDF? Yes. > > Can you do linked data with RDF? Yes. > > End of discussion... please! :) > Well said. > > > On Friday, June 21, 2013, wrote: > >> existing thread, and also for probably saying things other folks have >> already brought up] >> >> I have worked on RDF and systems using RDF for over 15 years now (and on >> RDF's "non-Web" predecessors before that). The most important thing I have >> learned is that while it is possible to do Linked Data and Semantic Web >> stuff *without* RDF, whatever alternative technology you choose, you soon >> feel compelled to add features that make it look like RDF. I particularly >> see this whenever someone comes to me advocating the use of JSON. RDF is >> what it is for a reason, *not* because we arbitrarily threw something >> together. >> >> So it is not that RDF "looks bad" or whatever people might be saying. It >> is that other technologies and approaches "fall short" of what Linked Data >> and Semantic Web really need. Let's not please reinvent things or shove a >> round peg in a square hole just because someone prefers curly braces over >> angle brackets. Issues like that are not interesting (at all), and we have >> more important things to do. >> >> Regards, >> >> - Ora >> >> -- >> Dr. Ora Lassila ora.lassila@nokia.com http://www.lassila.org >> Principal Technologist, Nokia >> >> >> >> > > -- > Juan Sequeda > +1-575-SEQ-UEDA > www.juansequeda.com >
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