- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 22:35:49 +0200
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, Ian Millard <icm@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
2009/6/3 Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>: > We are pleased to offer http://sameas.org/ as a service to provide you with > help finding URIs. Great stuff! > We believe that the Semantic Web and Linked Data need to develop clear, > focussed, services that only do one or two things, so that they can be > composed and utilised by the more complex services, as well as facilitating > re-use. I agree wholeheartedly. There is still a place for complex monolithic services (obviously, all scales, quasi-fractal), but I reckon the URI-addressable minimal-function combinable service is more of a Webby way to go. Also seems to me the future of agents - comparatively dumb little services that gain their power through interaction with other services/agents. On identi.ca, Davide Palmisano (@dpalmisano) commented that http://sameas.org was very close to something he was delivering - which points to other necessary parts of the puzzle: redundancy and service descriptions (so if a particular service is down or under stress an equivalent can be substituted). I know quite a few folks have spent time on vocabularies for service descriptions but must confess I've no idea what the state of the art is. Pointers for things suitable for this scenario anyone? Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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