Re: a common understanding of profiles

On 6/28/15 4:53 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> WebIDs are HTTP URIs that support turtle.  Hash URIs are recommended.  
> That is what's in the webid spec that timbl authored.
>
> I hope this is clear now.

Melvin,

I describe WebID is an Identifier with the following characteristics:

1. HTTP URI
2. Identifies an Agent
3. Resolves to a Profile Document (a/k/a a WebID-Profile doc)
4. WebID-Profile document contains RDF Language statements that describe 
Profile Subject
5. RDF-Turtle is the default content-type of a WebID-Profile doc .

In regards to #5, Turtle isn't the only option. It is simply the default 
in the spec. Our WebID + WebID-Profile generating app [1] produces 
WebID-Profile documents based all the existing RDF doc content types 
[2][3][4], and that includes JSON-LD [5]. This is a burden we've taken 
on strategically so that we can target a wider audience with our 
solutions e.g., JSON-LD for "Web Developers" and Turtle for end-users, 
system architects, and anyone else for whom entity relationship 
semantics are deemed an important part of data representation, access, 
and integration.


Links:

[1] http://youid.openlinksw.com -- our tool
[2] 
http://idehen.net/public_home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/YouID/Kingsley_Uyi_Idehen_LinkedIn_Profile_on_Dropbox/index.html 
-- HTML5+Microdata based WebID-Profile Doc
[3] 
http://idehen.net/public_home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/YouID/Kingsley_Uyi_Idehen_LinkedIn_Profile_on_Dropbox/index_rdfa.html 
-- RDFa variant
[4] 
http://idehen.net/public_home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/YouID/Kingsley_Uyi_Idehen_LinkedIn_Profile_on_Dropbox/profile.ttl 
-- Turtle variant
[5] 
http://idehen.net/public_home/kidehen/Public/DropBox/YouID/Kingsley_Uyi_Idehen_LinkedIn_Profile_on_Dropbox/profile.jsonld 
-- JSON-LD variant.


-- 
Regards,

Kingsley Idehen 
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software
Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Personal Weblog 1: http://kidehen.blogspot.com
Personal Weblog 2: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen
Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
Personal WebID: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this