- From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:52:31 +0000
- To: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
On 04/03/2012 22:41, Graham Klyne wrote: > Technically, I believe the current muddle can indeed be made to "just > work". But the web is more than just a technical system - it's people > too. And I think there are times when what people expect diverges > from what the technology delivers, leading to outcomes that may be > technically correct, but not useful in the sense of not meeting > people's expectations. If we can find a narrative that makes better > sense of the present technical architecture, which I think Jonathan's > recent postings could lead towards, then that will be great. But > until then, I won't completely close my mind to alternative solutions, > even if that means additional URI schemes. > I agree. The current design is verbose and unintuitive. Using an address with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol to identify real-world things works OK, but it's very counter-intuitive. People on this list have no confusion about URI/URL but every new person trying to learn this stuff, does. The tdb: protocol doesn't break anything. It aids linking by making it easy to use canonical pages to identify things. A web browser doesn't need to support it -- most of things in question won't be resolvable because they are things. Sure, a 303 can get you to a data page or HTML page, but that's even more confusing. Most web programmers don't grok content negotiation. Our goal really should be to start having linked data produced by the masses of people who know a bit of PHP. I believe the reason we still haven't seen the network effect kick-in for linked data is that it's too hard for people who don't care as much as early adopters do. It's got to be achievable by busy people who just skim the instructions. My personal success criteria is when the main topic of discussion is how to deal with spammers trying to inject triples into trusted data sources. -- Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248 You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
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