On Jul 15, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Eric Jain wrote:
IMO, the first goal of our design ought to be to ensure that
automated semantic web agents (idiots as they will be) will have a
fighting chance to avoid having to do the difficult (even
impossible) sorts of disambiguations that people are faced with
all the time. That bar hasn't yet been met. Once we've ensured
that we can meet that goal, then we can talk about optimization.
(incidentally we do discuss various optimization techniques, from
predicability of the form of the name, to purl servers sending
back the rewrite rules they use so that they can be implemented on
the client side).
There are people doing Semantic Web crawlers now, for them, I
gather, being able to get the RDF representation directly isn't a
premature optimization!
Except this isn't an issue. A link in the html suffices to let them
know where the RDF is, and the extra retrieval isn't going to kill
them. There are plenty of alternatives for optimization (google's
site map file comes to mind, or the LINK: http header) that are not
prone to unnecessarily introducing avoidable ambiguity on the
semantic web.
-Alan
