Re: Publishing updated spec documents.

+1

I'm slowly moving away from prefixes myself. It's a minor edit (in terms of
complexity) so if everyone is ok with it, I'll change it in time for the
call.

-- A


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

> On 2/25/14 2:17 PM, henry.story@bblfish.net wrote:
>
>> [1]https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/identity-respec.html
>>
>
> We currently have:
>
> [[
> EXAMPLE 1
> @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
>
> <> a foaf:PersonalProfileDocument ;
>    foaf:maker <#me> ;
>    foaf:primaryTopic <#me> .
>
> <#me> a foaf:Person ;
>    foaf:name "Bob" ;
>    foaf:knows <https://example.edu/p/Alice#MSc> ;
>    foaf:img <https://bob.example.org/picture.jpg> .
> ]]
>
> I would encourage changing this to:
>
> <>
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/PersonalProfileDocument> ;
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/maker> <#me> ;
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/primaryTopic> <#me> .
>
> <#me>
> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> ;
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "Bob" ;
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows> <https://example.edu/p/Alice#MSc> ;
> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/depiction> <https://bob.example.org/picture.jpg>
> .
>
> Why? For the following reasons:
>
> 1. @prefixes are confusing when end-users are initially introduced to
> Turtle -- they make Turtle more confusing than N-Triples (which it is a
> superset of)
> 2. @prefixes actually nullify the Linked Data effect -- you can see this
> just by looking at the two snippets, as you read this post.
>
> In a nutshell, @prefixes are a premature optimization that don't help
> end-users. They are a stylistic preference used by those that are already
> competent in Turtle.
>
> What we need to do is make our examples as simple as possible, with
> maximum impact baked in. Thus, if we are espousing the virtues of Linked
> Data, let's not use any patterns that obscure this most powerful AWWW
> (Architecture of the World Wide Web) showcase.
>
>
> --
>
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>
> Kingsley Idehen
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