- From: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@bbc.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:06:20 +0000
- To: "public-rdf-comments@w3.org" <public-rdf-comments@w3.org>
- CC: Gareth Adams <Gareth.Adams@bbc.co.uk>
Hello, Below are some comments by Gareth Adams (BBC developer) on the RDF 1.1 Primer. --- * The primer should introduce SPARQL in the first introduction of the example, by adding something like "Once you have a graph like this, you can use [[SPARQL]] to query for e.g. people interested in paintings by Leonardo da Vinci". When you're reading a primer and you don't know anything about Semantic Web technologies, every instruction seems like extra work to do. The quicker you can explain where the benefit of a particular technology appears, the easier it is to understand. * In the IRI section, the primer should include a statement about sharing IRIs, and add an example of a vocabulary IRI (e.g. <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person>, for example). * In the vocabulary section, the primer should state that vocabularies should ideally be reused. New terms should only be introduced if they're not already defined. If you gather RDF data from multiple sources (web pages, online databases, etc.), it will simplify the queries you'll need to write against this data. For example it is easier to query for all <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> instead of all <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> and all <http://schema.org/Person>. * The 'RDF data' section should include a point about using this data through SPARQL, pointing at the SPARQL Primer. * Turtle (or even better, N-Triples) conveys the message better than JSON-LD, which might lead to distracting readers from the core part of RDF (triples). --- Best, Yves ----------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. -----------------------------
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