- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:03:09 -0400
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
Ian Davis made a compelling case for layering RDF into the web of documents in a blog post 3 years ago [1]. I still agree with his main point: """ My belief is that trust must be considered far earlier and that it largely comes from usage and the wisdom of the crowds, not from technology. Trust is a social problem and the best solution is one that involves people making informed judgements on the metadata they encounter. To make an effective evaluation they need to have the ability to view and explore metadata with as few barriers as possible. In practice this means that the web of data needs to be as accessible and visible as the web of documents is today and it needs to interweave transparently. """ I also like RDFa because it allows people to expose the contents of their database by simply modifying some HTML templates. You don't have to install a triple store, or put up a SPARQL endpoint, etc. There are some bits you have to be careful with the subject URIs in your assertions, but that's not much different than using application/rdf+xml or text/turtle in my opinion. //Ed [1] http://blog.iandavis.com/2007/11/is-the-semantic-web-destined-to-be-a-shadow
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