Re: [http-range14] how to publish RDF for Information Resources

The "Link:" header is another option:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkHeader
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988

David

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 02:21 +0000, Yang Squared wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> 
> I have a Web architecture question here. 
> 
> 
> Assume I have a information resource URI
>  http://example.com/homepage.html
> 
> 
> I would like to publish a RDF metadata
> (http://example.com/data/homepagerdf) about this information resource
> (e.g. homepage isCreatedBy steve). What publishing mechanism can I
> use?
> 
> 
> since http://example.com/homepage.html is an Information Resource,
> when dereferencing it, we should get that homepage.html document
> returned. How can we possible redirect to a RDF?
> 
> 
> Content negotiation can use to serve two different representation of
> the resource, but both representation is for the same resource. So we
> cannot use it. 
>  
> 303 can redirect one information resources to another information
> resource, e.g. http://example.com/homepage.html
> --303--> http://example.com/data/homepagerdf --200-->RDF 
> 
> 
> but in this way, when I dereferencing the
> original http://example.com/homepage.html it did not result as a
> homepage.html itself and got a RDF. So there is a paradox here. 
> 
> 
> Can anyone please suggest anything? Or the conclusion is that the RDFa
> (or by using the link element to RDF) is the only way to publish RDF
> metadata for information resources?
> 
> 
> I am writing a paper and I would like to conclude that there will be
> no case that a hashURI publishing mechanism and 303 redirection can be
> used for Information Resource to publish RDF metadata. Do you have any
> object case?   
> 
> 
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> One may recommend me to use RDFa. However, I consider that the RDFa is
> not ideal solution to publish Linked Data at all.  
> First of all, embedding metadata together with data prohibits the
> independent curation of data and metadata. Secondly, following the
> principles of the Web Architecture, any distinct resource of
> significance should be given a distinct URI, but in this approach a
> single URI is used to identify two information resources. In general,
> the RDFa embedded metadata approach can be replaced by using the
> <link> element href in XHTML to pointing to an external RDF document,
> where therel=”meta” attribute can be used to indicate a relationship
> between resources. 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Yang Yang 
> 
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