- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:05:06 +0100
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
For what it's worth (and this is really off topic, especially for the RDF working group) I don't agree with this viewpoint at all. IMHO if we don't define a lingua franca for Linked Data then we're wasting our time even discussing the idea of it. The situation is bad enough with RDFa, JSON-LD, GRDDL, POWDER, Ntriples, N3, Turtle, and RDF/XML - not to mention NQuads, TriG, and TriX - without bringing other data models into the equation as well. http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data makes no mention of non-RDF stack languages. - Steve On 2012-10-22, at 14:03, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > Hi Peter, > > If it can be sent over HTTP, and can express hyperlinks in a standard way, and can express arbitrary attribute-value pairs in a standard way, then it can do Linked Data. > > Best, > Richard > > > On 22 Oct 2012, at 12:03, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >> So I could have reverse Polish notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation linked data? Or object-oriented http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_database linked data? Or fuzzy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic linked data? Or Montague http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar linked data? These are all standard in some sense. >> >> There has to be some notion that everyone is serving up stuff that others can read. Otherwise linked data is nothing more than a slogan. But where is the boundary? It seems to me that the boundary is triples, i.e., RDF. What linked data adds is nothing more than pragmatics. (Not that pragmatics isn't important.) >> >> peter >> >> >> On 10/22/2012 06:02 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: >>> Pat, >>> >>> On 22 Oct 2012, at 04:59, Pat Hayes wrote: >>>> I would be very interested to discover what y'all consider the be the definition of Linked Data. Can you provide a pointer to where this can be found? Thanks in advance. >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data >>> >>> Trying to nail it down much tighter than that is counter-productive. I learned this the hard way a couple of years ago, when foolishly trying to stop people who were “doing Linked Data with Atom” from using the LD term. >>> >>> One can obviously do Linked Data with RDF, and that's by far the most popular approach. RDF is well-suited to that task, and it's the community where the LD term first emerged. W3C's LDP-WG is currently writing a specification that has more details for that. >>> >>> JSON-LD is an attempt at creating a format that allows doing Linked Data with JSON. That's great. However, there's a thin line between saying “we enable LD with JSON” and “JSON-LD is how you do LD”. The JSON-LD spec really ought to say only the first thing, but slips into implying the second too often. >>> >>> Attempting to enforce a particular implementation technology for Linked Data, be it RDF or JSON or Atom or Microdata or whatever, doesn't work. This is what Kingsley keeps repeating on a daily basis, and he's right. >>> >>> The fact that a JSON-LD document also can be parsed to an RDF graph is mostly orthogonal to this. >>> >>> Best, >>> Richard >> >> > > -- Steve Harris, CTO Garlik, a part of Experian +44 7854 417 874 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 653331 VAT # 887 1335 93 80 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL
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