- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:29:41 -0000
- To: <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: "Linking Open Data" <linking-open-data@simile.mit.edu>, "SW-forum Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "Ian Millard" <icm@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
OK. Good question. Many thanks for the interest. Since http://budapest.rkbexplorer.com/ is simply a web page, there is no need to provide an RDF version. It would be nice to do so to give some metadata of the repository, and I expect we will do that in due course. So you are right, we should give a different code for "Accept: application/rdf+xml", although exactly which I discuss below. However, that does not really solve what you are asking. I think that somehow you expected the page to give an entrance, so an agent can start to explore it. As I said to Tim, we have declined to give that (at least for the moment), mainly because I am not sure what it would be. In some sense it is like trying to build a site map for a conventional site, or the entrance to dbpedia. Dbpedia gives some interesting queries (which I acknowledge we should provide), but is there an equivalent page we should be copying? Trying to provide an entrance would be easy if there was an index, but there isn't - these things are just knowledge bases. I see that http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/all attempts something of the sort. On the contrary to you needing to eyeball, I have no expectation at all of people just browsing. If you (I assume your agent) wants to get at the RDF, then you resolve a URI, execute a SPARQL query, or find a URI on a search engine, such as Sindice (which I hope will get round to us soon). I would hope that people will decide to do things like adding URIs of themselves to their FOAF files. (We intend to keep the URIs persistent, of course.) I think this is raising interesting questions about the SW. I was tempted to just provide the URIs and SPARQL, but thought it might be helpful to put a page at the domain root. (If you do actually want to eyeball the data, then there is a paragraph about RKB Explorer on the main page.) So, sorry, I understand the possible frustration for people coming to find out what is there, but it may be a while before we solve the problem. So given that we don't provide an RDF page at http://budapest.rkbexplorer.com/ , what should we do? I think your suggestion of 406 may be right, but I would defer to others on which of the many possible responses is correct. In fact what it does is just the default for the web server, as we did not think about this question very hard. As input, I went around some other pages to find out what they do: curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://openlinksw.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: http://www.google.co.uk/ curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://www.google.co.uk/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/all/ HTTP/1.1 404 Sorry_class_map__not_found curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/all/Publications HTTP/1.1 500 Unknown_column_enc_editor_in_where_clause_SELECT_dblp_pub_newdblp_key_FROM_d blp_pub_new_WHERE_enc_editor__0_LIMIT_10000_E0 curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://dbpedia.com/ HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: http://redir-error.gandi.net/ curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://redir-error.gandi.net/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK On 6/11/07 21:12, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > > Hugh, > > I am explicitly requesting an RDF representation of the default resource > associated with http://budapest.rkbexplorer.com when I issue: > > curl -I -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://budapest.rkbexplorer.com > > Thus, I would like to get an RDF Information Resource URI back. If such > doesn't exist then 406 will do. I want to get at the RDF data without > exercising my eyeballs :-) > > At a higher level (i.e. RDF aware User Agent) here are the results of your > current URIs: > > 1. > http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbudapest.rkbexplorer.c > om > 2. > http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnsf.rkbexplorer.com%2F > id%2Faward-0211606 > > > > Kingsley
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