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Developing Semantic-Web-friendly specifications | Simon Grant of CETIS

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 10:25 AM PST

This serves a personal position statement for the CETIS Future of Interoperability Standards Meeting 2010-01-12 Why and how the Semantic Web We want interoperability specifications and standards with a Semantic Web underlay, because that is the fundamental common denominator, well-adapted to evolving systems, good for reuse, post-modern; using and enabling a "linked data" strategy, with emphasis on: URI-identified resources, with types of resource that are widely agreed for a domain; links between them, using common DC-like relationships/properties/predicates; but with no immediate need for RDF all at once… for RDF, think more Turtle than RDF/XML; any XML should be RDF friendly: able to be clearly mapped and transformed to triples; there may be blank nodes which may be filled in one day; can approach RDF via RDFa and/or GRDDL approaches; may not need XML, as long what there is can be transformed to RDF; using the DCMI Abstract Model as a reference point.