- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:12:09 -0000
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
I was reading about the topology of HyperText links, and wondered if links wouldn't be better expressed in RDF? For example, I could create some ns denoting that a resource has a link, and then use an rdf:Description to describle the topology of that link. Example:- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.1/" xmlns:link="http://linkns.com/" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/"> <link:linkBag> <rdf:Description rdf:ID="link1" xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/" dc:title="HTML Homepage" dc:author="Dave Raggett et al."/> </link:linkBag> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> Although that is a highly simplistic model (only describing one link briefly!) you can see how by using RDF M&S it would be easy to define link relationships between an entire module part of a site. In other words, HyperText are nodes and arcs, so why not use RDF to describe them? You could use some attribute of xlink to show how your certain link is described in RDF. Notice that dc:author here implies that Dave Raggett created the link rather than the href. This is basically so I can get my XHTML to RDF deeley working: at the moment it doesn't express link types very well (it gets the triples the wrong way round, and uses rss:link). IOW: help, please! Is expressing XHTML link semantics in RDF a good idea or not? Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://www.mysterylights.com/sbp/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF] "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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