- From: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 11:51:44 +1000
- To: public-rdf-shapes@w3.org
On 8/5/14, 11:23 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Holger, > > Yes, your example is most likely understandable by anyone who does > some coding, without being a "semantic web engineer." Now the question > is: who creates this and how? And do they have to be fully versed in RDF? To be honest, I believe the modern reality is that people create those things using copy and paste from sites such as StackOverflow. And that's not necessarily bad, and we all do it. As long as the common patterns are well documented snippets, nobody needs to understand the formal underpinnings, and the syntax allows them to ignore the attributes that they don't need. A good example of how to present this is the schema.org documentation, which includes copy-able snippets in various formats. And I like the analogy of a gateway "drug", because anyone who cares to look deeper may have an easier path to understanding the RDF model too. This is IMHO more useful than pretending that RDF was XML and use RELAX-NG as the starting point. But I am writing too much here, it would be good to hear other opinions. Holger
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