RE: General comments on UCR doc

Andrea,

On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:26 AM, Andrea Perego wrote:

> >> > [snip]
> >> >
> >> > much agreed, but I'd turn it around:
> >> > Spatiotemporal data must be processable independently from their format
> >> (while
> >> > recognizing that the amount of metadata available in each format varies).
> >>
> >> I tend to agree. But it's unclear to me how this will be implemented,
> >> in practice. E.g., would this require that applications should be able
> >> to consume spatial data irrespective of their format?
> >
> > Is the requirement that client and server need to be able to negotiate the
> format? If so, what exactly is the format. I guess it's not the media-type (e. g.
> RDF/XML, Turtle, ...) but something more like an RDF Shape [1]. I think we need
> to interact with the W3C data shape WG on this. There has been some
> discussion on shape negotiation on the LOD list [2] that I sparked off a few
> weeks ago, but there has been no consensus on the matter yet.
> 
> Good point, Lars. The inability to negotiate the "profile" is
> definitely one of the gaps to be addressed. But my proposal was less
> ambitious, and was just about basic HTTP conneg (so, media types). If
> this is not enabled, it would be difficult to get to more
> sophisticated features.

OK. So does this mean that we have two different requirements for content negotiation?
1) Media type negotiation (Accept-/Content-Type-header)
2) Profile/Shape/Whatever negotiation (No consensus on how to do that yet...)

Best,

Lars
 
> PS: I've been following the "profile" thread you started with the
> greatest interest.

:)

Received on Friday, 29 May 2015 18:42:35 UTC