Thanks Kingsley, timely input into the Linked Data Best Practices doc that is
being drafted and will be available for review shortly.
Cheers,
Bernadette Hyland, co-chair
W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
Charter: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Over the years there has been a subtle "blind spot" re. Linked Data that
> ultimately leads to many a debate thread about Linked Data utility and
> applications etc.. Thus, I would like to outline a few simple best practices
> that would go a long way to putting these reoccurring issues to rest, once
> and for all.
>
> Whenever you publish an (X)HTML based Linked Data interface please try to
> achieve at least one of the following:
>
> 1. Use Linked Data URIs in @href attribute of the <a/> tag associated with
> the literal values that typically label the subject, predicate, or object of
> an RDF triple.
> 2. Use the <link/> tag's @rel attribute to associate the (X)HTML document
> with Linked Data URIs of entities it describes or simply mentions (casually
> or topically).
> 3. If you have server access and admin level privileges, repeat #2 on the
> server side using the "Link:" header in HTTP responses .
>
> Irrespective of how subjectively beautiful or ugly an (X)HTML interface might
> be re., Linked Data display, the utility of your Linked Data is ultimately
> comprised if it cannot be discovered, shared, and easily referenced to by
> other Linked Data tools.
>
> Remember, this is all about webby structured data that leverages the RDF data
> model -- an entity relationship model endowed with explicit machine (and
> human) comprehensible entity relationship semantics :-)
>
> Here's a simple example from DBpedia: http://bit.ly/10wXsXF .
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Kingsley Idehen
> Founder & CEO
> OpenLink Software
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