> you don't need to use, or publish a SPARQL endpoint in
> order to 'do' Linked Data - it's just as valid to simply use RDF (the
> domain
> model) to structure your data, and then to expose this in some form via
> URIs
Yes, good point. Ditto the new API work.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply otherwise.
Andy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Frankie Roberto
> Sent: 03 March 2010 17:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: What do you mean by 'linked data'? Was: Re: How niche is
> too niche?
>
> On 3 March 2010 16:52, Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Or to put that another way, "is there a variant of 'open data' that
> isn't
> > Linked Data (i.e. that doesn't require the use of RDF and SPARQL) but
> that
> > allows the museums sector to achieve workably machine-readable,
> > semantically-interoperable data?". Standards like the OAI-PMH and
> SRU would
> > be examples of this.
> >
>
> This is a good debate to have (and I still have some doubts as to the
> benefits of Linked Data vs 'open data'), but I should point out, as it
> has
> been to me, that you don't need to use, or publish a SPARQL endpoint in
> order to 'do' Linked Data - it's just as valid to simply use RDF (the
> domain
> model) to structure your data, and then to expose this in some form via
> URIs
> (eg as RDF-XML, RDF-JSON, or some other variant).
>
> It was described to me that SPARQL is 'heavy' Linked Data, whereas
> simply
> exposing your RDF triples is 'light' Linked Data. And perhaps the work
> that's being done around REST APIs for Linked Data may present a
> 'medium'
> option...
>
> Frankie
>
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> Frankie Roberto
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