- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:48:18 -0400
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- CC: Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Toby Inkster wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:05:54 -0400 > Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > > >> W3C only officially acknowledges RDF/XML as Markup Language for RDF >> Data Model. >> > > I hear this time and time again, but it is not true anymore. > > XHTML+RDFa 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation in October 2008. It has the > same publication status as RDF/XML. > You know that and so do I. We aren't the audience with the understanding etc.. > (And as it happens, XHTML+RDFa 1.0 is capable of representing a larger > subset of the RDF data model than RDF/XML is, as it uses CURIEs rather > than QNames. CURIEs are capable of expressing predicate URIs such as > <http://example.com/1> which cannot be expressed as QNames.) > I am sure you know you are preaching to a believer on this one :-) My critical concern and gripe is that RDF/XML continues to be a source of confusion re. RDF and Linked Data. Some interesting links from prior discussions about RDF/XML and RDF problem: 1. https://gist.github.com/221494/e19ca02a9b5a613705d9160ecb49784c67559898 2. http://bnode.org/media/2009/07/08/semantic_web_technology_stack.png -- great visualization for talking about RDF (its role is crystal clear with zero conflation or RDF/XML overhang ) . -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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