Re: Should we complete the WebID spec?

Quoting Kingsley Idehen (2023-11-02 13:30:36)
> A WebID is just an identifier. It has to stay as just that.  It SHOULD 
> resolve to a profile document, which is where things get challenging.
> 
> A WebID profile document should comprise a machine-computable 
> description of its subject (named by a WebID). I encourage the use of an 
> HTML doc comprising metadata delivered as an RDF-based structured data 
> island using JSON-LD, Microdata, or Plain Old Semantic (POSH).
> 
> Why is this important?
> 
> Profile documents need to be familiar to both end-users and developers, 
> the only document type that satisfies that condition is HTML.
> 
> Storyline:
> 
> The self-sovereign identity and eventual privacy control journeys start 
> from a WebID that resolves (without explicit content negotiation) to a 
> profile document i.e., via a "#" based fragment identifier.
> 
> Terminology:
> 
> RDF -- an abstract language for structured data expression (using a 
> variety of notations) and representation (using a variety of 
> serialization formats).

Let me try rephrase the above in my own words, to check if I undertand
correctly (in which case I fully agree with it):

A WebID is only an identifier.  It is not the processing of said
identifiermachinery by agents, and it is consequently important to a)
not complicate the spec for WebID by including spec for surrounding
machinery, but also b) to ensure that the spec ensures the ability for
intended processing.

The "processing" of a WebID identifier is *both* done by human and
mechanical agents, and therefore it is relevant for the WebID to
specify targeted both those types of agents.

Concretely, you suggest as a MUST to use a HTML document that MUST
contain RDF expressions, and that those RDF expressions SHOULD be
serialized in formats preferrably for both human and machine consumption
(but not mandate any specific serialization).

Did I get that correctly?


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