Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

On 17 June 2013 23:59, Peter Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:

> Really, 5 star linked data with no triples?  At all?  Why?  What is
> the underlying data model?  How will it interact with existing Linked
> Data?
>
> Or perhaps you just mean that one can publish linked data without
> having an explicit piece of software that implements a triple store.
> Of course, that is currently easy to do. It is quite a bit harder to
> consume linked data without having something that implements the
> basics of a triple store, so maybe that is what you are targetting?
> But what would this consuming software do when it followed a link to a
> document that contained free-form triples?
>

I would imagine it would be a bit like a browser.  It would either fail
gracefully, or make a best guess.


>
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> Nuance Communications
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 17/06/2013 06:26, David Booth wrote:
> > [..]
> >
> >
> >>
> >> For example, suppose the client application dereferences a URI and
> >> obtains a comma-separated-values (CSV) document.  unless the client
> >> application knew how to interpret that file, it would not be able to
> >> make meaningful use of that data.
> >
> >
> > Subject to W3C Member approval and other bits of process, we hope to
> launch
> > a WG to define exactly that in the near future (say Sept/Oct). i.e.
> define a
> > metadata format and association mechanisms with CSV so that you can
> express
> > row and column headings, data types and, I hope, basic templating rules
> for
> > turning string values into URIs but I'm not sure that's in the charter
> (I'm
> > thinking something like GREL
> > http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/wiki/GRELFunctions). That same
> data
> > could be used to generate other formats besides RDF (OData etc.)
> >
> > More details soon but basically that's what's behind my hope that it may
> > well be possible to publish data that is close to being 5 star linked
> > data... without a triple store.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Phil Archer
> > W3C eGovernment
> > http://www.w3.org/egov/
> >
> > http://philarcher.org
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> > @philarcher1
> >
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