Re: linking from HTML document to RDF (meta)data

Pat Hayes wrote:
> 
>> Has SWBPD expressed an opinion on best practice for linking from an 
>> HTML document to an RDF document that describes it and/or attempts to 
>> provide equivalent content?
> 
> There might be different ways for those two different relationships, 
> right? That is, if the RDF is about the HTML, case 1, or about the same 
> topic as the HTML, case 2, as in the 'vocabulary' examples recently 
> discussed where the GET request can choose between HTML and RDF 
> renderings (?) of the 'same' topic. Seems like we might want to keep 
> those cases distinct.

Right.  But if using <a> or <link> were the recommendation you could 
just use different values of the "rel" attribute for these cases.

> 
>>  (This seems like it ought to be a FAQ, and I must be missing 
>> something obvious;  I've looked on the SWBPD page;   have I not found 
>> the right reference?)
>>
>> "Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML" 
>> <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/> suggests using <link 
>> rel="meta" href="mydoc.dcxml" />, where mydoc.dcxml is the RDF/XML 
>> document.  But what I frequently see is a plain old link, e.g., in 
>> this case something like <a href="/mydoc.dcxml" >RDF</a> (or an 
>> equivalent button, as used at the bottom of the RDF specs).  It seems 
>> as if some recommendations along these lines would be helpful.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Pat
> 
>>
>> --Frank
> 
> 

Received on Friday, 28 April 2006 17:06:22 UTC