Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

Could you please elaborate a little bit about the requirement
concerning the content-type of RDF being application/rdf+xml.
At the moment, I name my RDF files with .rdf.xml extension, and it
works pretty well (the content-type is text/xml, but it is ok for me).
I have never felt the need to change that to a more specific content-type.



On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Martin Hepp
(UniBW)<martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> As mostly, recently ;-), I agree with Kingsley - I did not want to say that
> proper usage of http is bad or obsolete. But it turned out unfeasible for
> broad adoption my owners of small Web sites.
>
> For huge data sources and for vocabularies, the current recipes are fine.
> But I want every single business in the world to use GoodRelations for
> publishing at least their opening hours - 19 Million companies in Europe
> alone. I cannot explain to every single one of them how to configure their
> server.
>
> Another thing that might have gone lost in the discussion: Even though we
> knew the recipes, helping the site owners was difficult, because we
> experienced hundreds of different environments - preexisting .htaccess, MS
> IIS, hoster-specific scenarios, etc. So the problem is really that such a
> low-level technique is not feasible if you face so much diversity as far as
> the target system is concerned.
>
> Maybe some day a certain LOD/SW package will be installed by default on most
> servers. But we cannot wait till then.
>
> BTW: We did not even require the full beauty of LOD best practices. We
> simply want them to do as described here:
>
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Recipe_8
>
> Best
> Martin
>
> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>
>> Giovanni Tummarello wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That can then be inserted as code snippets via copy-and-paste to any
>>>> XHTML
>>>> document.
>>>>
>>>> Any opinions?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Great, why bother with any other solution.
>>> even talking about any other solution is extraordinarely bad for the
>>> public perception of the semantic web community.
>>>
>>> Giovanni
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Giovanni,
>>
>> We don't need mutual exclusivity re. Linked Data Deployment.
>>
>> There's nothing wrong with an array of options that cover a broad range of
>> Linked Data deployment circumstances.
>>
>> HTTP is the essence of the Web (what makes it what it is), and Content
>> Negotiation is intrinsic to HTTP.
>>
>> Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, really.
>>
>>
>
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