- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:09:00 -0700
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- CC: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hugh Glaser wrote: > On 14/07/2008 10:42, "Mark Birbeck" <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com> wrote: > [snip] > >> >>> And if we are talking about an RDF browser (as our pages are, albeit with a >>> clean URI >>> that doesn't have the browser URI in it), getting it to include the RDF as >>> RDFa or whatever >>> is even stranger; after all >>> http://demo.openlinksw.com/rdfbrowser2/?uri%5B%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fos.rkbexplorer >>> .com%2Fdescription%2Fosr7000000000017765 >>> doesn't include the substantive RDF as RDFa, (or have a link rel to >>> http://os.rkbexplorer.com/data/osr7000000000017765 for that matter) which >>> would be the >>> equivalent. >>> >> I can't comment on that example, but ultimately there is no need for a >> URL for an HTML+RDFa page to be any different to a normal one. >> >> (Although I might have missed your point, here....) >> > Not sure. > I think it relates to the question Tom is asking. > > Another way of putting it is that we don't expect Tabulator to include RDFa > of the RDF we are currently browsing (I think - or maybe we should?). > Hugh, > So I think it comes down the purpose of the exercise, and there is no one > size fits all. > > If I have some web pages, then being able to simply embed RDF (by whatever > means), or link to associated RDF resources, is really great. Good for > convenience, maintenance. > > On the other hand, if I am trying to simply publish RDF, for example out of > a DB, then things are a bit different. To help people who want to build > agents that use it I might expect them to be able to visualise what I am > publishing by using Tabulator or other tools to browse it generically. Or > equivalently I might provide some human readable pages of the RDF to make my > data more easily accessible. > Because it is a bespoke browser, then I need to add rel link to the RDF URI. > And then someone suggests I should add RDFa or something more to these > pages. > Before I know it, I have invested a lot of time providing (and maintaining) > neatly formatted and RDF-friendly web pages to publish my DB, when all I > wanted to do was join the Semantic Web by publishing my RDF. > > In fact, one of the options when Kingsley asked for the rel link was to > simply remove all the html description pages, getting back to the core of > what I want to do, which is publish RDF as Linked Data. > Yes, and the little <link rel="alternate" /> addition has extended the scope of your Linked Data deployment to the broader Web :-) And if you choose, you can broaden even further will some RDFa sprinkled in. Note, this is simply an option. Kingsley > Best > Hugh > > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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