On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:08:05AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: > The URIs do not have to be resolvable. Thier just unique-ish identifiers. > The fact that they sometimes look like URLs is a pain. I think thier > should have been a 'namespace:' URI prefix, but its a bit late now. > > So to answer your question, dont update your URIs. ok. I have to say that's pretty damn weird. > Providing RDF data representing the things in the site is the most > important, but I now find it easier to to run sites off RDF because the > site code tends to depend less on the data than with SQL. I guess it > depends how much SQL youve done near zero > and wether you are willing to change. I do web development with Zope. My site code never depends on the data store :-) > > AFAICT the advantages lie with the former. Could you give an > > example of such a third-party app? I'm not really coming up with > > compelling use cases. > > OK, take the LAD conference website. They might want to include a short > bio of each presenter - they can take all the project related data from > <insert name of new site> and add a few paras of text. After the event has > run they could publish photos on the website and mark up whos shown in > each photo, and publish the photo and bio stuff (against the same URIs), > the original site can then load this new stuff into thier KB and suddenly > you have a whole load of new data. Its like data for free. > > You /can/ do all this stuff by web-scraping HTML into your internal > database format and resyncing with the source site every week, but who > would bother? > > As an example, look at my entry on works KB: > http://triplestore.aktors.org/browse/?resource=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecs.soton.ac.uk%2Finfo%2F%23person-00384 > I hardly wrote any of that, most of it came from other sources, eg. > someones online photo album and random databases published as RDF, click > "show sources" (top right) to see where it all came from. That is pretty interesting. I hadn't considered that *I* might be the 3rd party :-) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's THE SPAMSTRANGLING FOOD! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
