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More Structure, More Terminology and (hopefully) More Clarity
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content: Language is Essential to Communication I recently began a series on the structured Web and its role in the continued evolution of the Internet. This next installment in the series probes in greater depth the question of What is structure? in reference to data and Web expressions, with an emphasis on terminology and definitions. This post ties in with a new best-practices guide published by Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, and Tom Heath -- called the Linked Data Publishing Tutorial -- that provides definitions and viewpoints from the perspective of the use of RDF (Resource Description Framework) and W3C practices. My initial post in this series and their tutorial occasioned Kingsley Idehen to post his own Linked Data and the Web Information BUS entry, adding the valuable perspective of practices and terminology going back to the early 1990s in object and relational database systems and standards such as ODBC. All of these efforts share a desire to craft practices, language and terminology to help promote the availability and interoperability of useful data on the Web. A challenge for the semantic Web community is to craft language that is clear and understandable to the lay public and Web developers, something which it has often done poorly.Some problematic terms include information resource, non-information resource, dereferencing, bnode, content negotiation, representation, URL re-writing, and others. This piece only tackles 'non-information resource' head on. Discussion of other problematic terms awaits another day. These posts caused Kingsley and me to engage in a prolonged discussion about definitions and terms. I acted as the unofficial scribe, which I attempt to more generally capture and argue below. If you like the ideas below, you may credit both of us; if you don't, ascribe any errors or omissions to me alone [1]. The Basic Framework and Argument The basic observation related to the structured Web is that it is a transition phase from the initial document-ce…
encoded: Language is Essential to Communication I recently began a series on the structured Web and its role in the continued evolution of the Internet. This next installment in the series probes in greater depth the question of What is structure? in reference to data and Web expressions, with an emphasis on terminology and definitions. This post ties in with a new best-practices guide published by Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, and Tom Heath — called the Linked Data Publishing Tutorial — that provides definitions and viewpoints from the perspective of the use of RDF (Resource Description Framework) and W3C practices. My initial post in this series and their tutorial occasioned Kingsley Idehen to post his own Linked Data and the Web Information BUS entry, adding the valuable perspective of practices and terminology going back to the early 1990s in object and relational database systems and standards such as ODBC. All of these efforts share a desire to craft practices, language and terminology to help promote the availability and interoperability of useful data on the Web. A challenge for the semantic Web community is to craft language that is clear and understandable to the lay public and Web developers, something which it has often done poorly.Some problematic terms include information resource, non-information resource, dereferencing, bnode, content negotiation, representation, URL re-writing, and others. This piece only tackles ‘non-information resource‘ head on. Discussion of other problematic terms awaits another day. These posts caused Kingsley and me to engage in a prolonged discussion about definitions and terms. I acted as the unofficial scribe, which I attempt to more generally capture and argue below. If you like the ideas below, you may credit both of us; if you don’t, ascribe any errors or omissions to me alone [1]. The Basic Framework and Argument The basic observation related to the structured Web is that it is a transition phase from the initial document-cent…
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Semantic Web
topic: Structured Web
links to: structured Web
links to: Chris Bizer
links to: Richard Cyganiak
links to: Tom Heath
links to: Linked Data Publishing Tutorial
links to: Resource Description Framework
links to: W3C
links to: Kingsley Idehen
links to: Linked Data and the Web Information BUS
links to: ODBC
links to: prolonged discussion
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links to: semantic Web
links to: linked data
links to: Web 3.0
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links to: Uniform Resource Locators
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links to: recently posted
links to: RFC 2396
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links to: Technical Architecture Group
links to: 2005
links to: index.html
links to: fragment identifiers
links to: bigClass
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links to: Web service
links to: API
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links to: this series
links to: structure
links to: data structure
links to: Semi-structured Data: Happy 10th Birthday!
links to: Structured Data v. Unstructured Data
links to: toc.html
links to: http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/1996-19
links to: tutorial-semi-pods.ps.gz
links to: EDI
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links to: hist2002
links to: suciu98semistructured.html
links to: http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/1761
links to: Atom
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Mike Bergman
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Mike Bergman
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Resource Description Framework
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2005
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this series
label: Structured Web
label: structured Web series

N3

pickle

RSS

Turtle

XML

YaML

HTML

Wikitext

XHTML

303 (See Other) redirect

REST

SPARQL

Dereferencing HTTP URIs.

Leo Sauermann

Max Völkel

Cool URIs for the Semantic Web

Dan Connolly

A Pragmatic Theory of Reference for the Web

scraping

DOM

Virtuoso Sponger

GRDDL

Babel

RDFizers

general converters

Triplr