- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:52:04 +0200
- To: Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>
- CC: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, Benjamin Good <goodb@interchange.ubc.ca>, Natalia Villanueva Rosales <naty.vr@gmail.com>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:13:48 -0700, Michel_Dumontier wrote: > What if I > have a semantic web application in which I would like to retrieve more > information about this resource? Since the document is not an RDF > document with machine understandable statements about it, it seems that > my application wouldn't be able to learn anything more about > http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 is linked to a machine-readable representation [http://beta.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345.rdf] via two mechanisms: 1. there is a link-rel=alternate in the header of the web page, and 2. you can set an Accept header if you want to skip directly to that. The main reason why I don't default to the machine-readable representation (no doubt that would be useful for people writing semweb applications) is that the large majority of resources does not have a machine readable representation, and web pages happen to be the greatest common denominator.
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