On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Peter Ansell <ansell.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the Annotation publishing pattern section there is the following statement: > > "It is entirely consistent with the Linked Data principles to make > statements about third-party resources." > > I don't believe that to be true, simply because, unless users are > always using a quad model (RDF+NamedGraphs), they have no way of > retrieving that information just by resolving the foreign identifier > which is the subject of the RDF triple. They would have to stumble on > the information by knowing to retrieve the object URI, which isn't > clear from the pattern description so far. In a triples model it is > harmful to have this pattern as Linked Data, as the statements are not > discoverable just knowing the URI. >
Can you elaborate more on the harm you suggest here? I don't think we need to limit the data published about a subject to that subset retrievable at its URI. (I wrote a little about this last year at http://blog.iandavis.com/2009/10/more-than-the-minimum ) I also don't believe this requires the use of quads. I think it can be interlinked using rdfs:seeAlso. Ian