Re: Named Graphs and Content Negotiation

Great, fixed in the "future" specification document.

http://www.openannotation.org/spec/extension/future.html

Rob

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I believe it does.
>
> I can think of at least two cases which are not http URIs, but whose
> resolution in practice may produce an http URI for an http proxy
> service with the original URI as an argument, and whose dereferencing
> is then the dereferencing of the original.  Those two are doi and
> lsid.  (Whether a request for Named Graph serialization could be
> passed all the way to the proxy might be another question, but it
> seems that should be possible in general.)
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good catch.
>>
>> I propose the following amendment:
>>
>> This form MUST ONLY be returned when retrieving an Annotation if the
>> client explicitly requests a Named Graph serialization, for example
>> through the use of HTTP Content Negotiation.  This restriction ...
>>
>> Does that remove the HTTP protocol restriction sufficiently?
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> OK, I concede that  [1] seems to slightly discourage the use of Named
>>> Graphs, though conceding their utility. Hence, my concern may not be
>>> of great impact.  But I am slightly concerned by the tex in the OAX
>>> spect:
>>>
>>> "This form MUST ONLY be returned when dereferencing an Annotation's
>>> URI if the client explicitly requests a Named Graph serialization via
>>> Content Negotiation. This restriction is to ensure interoperability
>>> with clients that can not parse the Named Graph serialization, and
>>> hence would be unable to parse the Annotation graph at all."
>>>
>>> Content Negotiation is defined by the http protocol, and the first
>>> sentence seems to assume that Named Graphs must have http URIs. (Maybe
>>> I'm wrong.  Maybe other dereferencable URI schemes can support http
>>> Content Negotiation???).   OA has plenty of advice or requirements
>>> about resources with http URIs, but this seems to be the only facility
>>> in OA that can't be used except with http URIs.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.openannotation.org/spec/extension/#NamedGraph
>>>
>>>
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