Re: Some heresies (was Re: Comments on "SPARQL 1.1 Uniform HTTP Protocol for Managing RDF Graphs")

Policy matters more than format anyway. The most important thing is
being able to get the data in the first place.

Consider the W3C's TR data:

http://www.w3.org/2002/01/tr-automation/

This data is broken in various ways, but you can patch it up with a
modicum of intelligence. Fixing the integrity of the data would be the
most helpful thing to implementors, followed closely by using a less
impracticable format.

On the whole URI debate which has stretched back at least to Topic
Maps, obviously it was a mistake not to have tools like Sailor,
Tabulator, and Arcs before the specifications. Those kind of tools
should have been criteria for getting out of CR.

-- 
Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/

Received on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 12:10:18 UTC