- From: Andy Seaborne <andy@seaborne.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:06:17 +0100
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 15/08/14 18:08, Hugh Glaser wrote: > Thanks, Richard. > Yeah. > But it can be useful if you agree to mint the same MIME type as other people :-) > Would one use "application/rdf+thrift” or "application/rdf+x-thrift”, for example? > If I remember correctly, the x- usually indicates an unregistered type, but if the type is expected to get registered one day, then people often use the x-less one in anticipation, for future-proofing. > > It is especially useful to use an agreed type if you want to consume other peoples’ services/data (or let them consume yours). > Of course I realise that is rather unusual in the SemWeb world, but it does happen ;-) http://afs.github.io/rdf-thrift/rdf-binary-thrift.html#graphs-and-datasets suggests: Content type: application/rdf+thrift File extensions: rt, trdf Andy > > Best > Hugh > On 15 Aug 2014, at 17:15, Richard Lewis <richard.lewis@gold.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Hi Hugh, >> >> While there is a process for registering media types, it's not >> necessary for media types to be deposited in some central store in >> order to build hypermedia applications using them. In fact, it's quite >> common to mint media types specifically for certain applications. >> >> If your application design follows RESTful principles, there will be >> an application state (or probably multiple states) in which the client >> can discover the media types of resources he/she may want to >> retrieve. So if you want to make "application/rdf+thrift" (for >> example) available for some resources in your application, you can go >> right ahead; just make sure you tell the client is told that it's >> available. >> >> Just my 2p. >> >> Richard >> >> At Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:36:44 +0100, >> Hugh Glaser wrote: >>> >>> Hi Andy, >>> Thanks. >>> Looks very useful. >>> >>> This may be a stoopid question… :-) >>> As I am able to use this for network data exchange, presumably I can request it using conneg over http when resolving URIs. >>> So I would need a MIME type. >>> I see application/x-thrift is required in http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftIntegrationConventions?highlight=%28application%2Fx-thrift%29 >>> >>> >>> So now the possibly stooped bit… >>> Is there a recommended variant for RDF-Thrift? >>> Because I might want to ask for the Thrift version of another content-type, such as non-LD JSON. >>> >>> It looks like the same problem as RDF+XML, since I might want another XML content-type of the document. >>> >>> Best >>> Hugh >>> >>> On 15 Aug 2014, at 15:19, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> RDF Binary using Apache Thrift >>>> >>>> This is a binary format for RDF graphs, datasets and SPARQL result >>>> sets that is fast to process. [1] >>>> >>>> http://afs.github.io/rdf-thrift/ >>>> >>>> includes the on-the-wire description as well as an implementation. >>>> >>>> Using Apache Thrift makes it considerably less work to integrate >>>> into existing systems and toolkits, or to build custom >>>> processing. [2] >>>> >>>> Comments and feedback welcome, >>>> Andy >>>> >>>> [1] The largest gain is on reading data, with rates x3 faster than >>>> parsing N-Triples. >>>> >>>> [2] Apache thrift has a large number of implementations across a >>>> range of languages: http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/LibraryFeatures >> -- >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> Richard Lewis >> Computing, Goldsmiths' College >> t: +44 (0)20 7078 5203 >> @: lewisrichard >> http://www.transforming-musicology.org/ >> 905C D796 12CD 4C6E CBFB 69DA EFCE DCDF 71D7 D455 >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >
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