Re: Datasets and contextual/temporal semantics

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:59:24 -0700, Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com> said:

    jeremy> On the WEB it is not possible to publish any information
    jeremy> without also giving some time-information. The HTTP
    jeremy> headers have it.

I am very mildly uncomfortable tying up the interpretation of the
document too tightly to the transmission protocol. This is partly the
point of the range-14-esque,

    <finger://river.styx.org/ww>
    <finger://river.styx.org/ww.foaf>

It might be a problem if code that doesn't "check the HTTP headers" is
considered broken because more practically minded people might use USB
sticks instead of the finger protcol to transmit big blobs of RDF and
it should be perfectly adequate to embed all the necessary information
in the document itself.

Cheers,
-w

Received on Friday, 14 October 2011 11:08:58 UTC