Backward and Forward links in RDF just as important- January 25, 2006 Piet Hein, I think, Grooked that, "Two types that had far better leave to their betters the civilized art of exchanging letters are those who disdain to make any response, and those who infallibly answer at once!" The regularity of this blog fails on both counts. One meme of RDF ethos is that the direction one choses for a given property is arbitrary: it doesn't matter whether one defines "parent" or "child"; "employee" or "employer". This philosophy (from the Enquire design of 1980) is...http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/72 Give yourself a URI- January 25, 2006 Do you have a URI for yourself If you are reading this blog and you have the ability to publish stuff on the web, then you can make a FOAF page, and you can give yourself a URI. A lot of people have published data about themselves without using a URI for themselves. This means I can't refer to them in other data. So please take a minute to give yourself a URI. If you have a FOAF page, you may just have to add rdf:about="" and voila you have a URI http:example.comAlanfoaf.rdfABC. (I suggest..http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/71 |