On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:44:06PM -0400, Jeff Young wrote:
> > > I suspect that HTML5 with embedded semantics will end up as the de facto form
> > > of higher level abstraction.
Jeff wrote:
> Factor out the "query language" (i.e. SPARQL/SQL/CQL/OpenSearch/etc.).
> The "abstract form" that is left is "information". How that information
> gets sliced on a distributed network isn't that important anymore
> because any missing bits are presumably an HTTP GET away (i.e. "Linked
> Data" discretely or in bulk). It's just a caching/network efficiency
> issue at that point. Likewise, it doesn't ultimately matter whether the
> information is serialized as (RDF/)XML, N-Triples, XHTML+RDFa,
> HTML5+Microdata, and any other imaginable digital form because the
> transformations between them are increasingly trivial.
I think I see what you are driving at but do not understand the point as
it is formulated above.
I'm guessing that you don't _really_ mean "any other imaginable digital form",
"but any other digital form for which transformations into RDF are trivial"...?
And might "HTML5 with embedded semantics" also include semantics for which no
such transformation is available?
And is HTML5 then a "form of higher-level abstraction", de facto or otherwise,
or is it just one of the interchangeable concrete syntaxes -- albeit a favored
one -- for exchanging the information on a distributed network?
Tom
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