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RESTful Open Annotation API specification
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Use Linked Data Platform collection (and related) patterns #5

Open spyysalo opened 9 years ago

spyysalo commented 9 years ago

As of about two weeks ago there is now a W3C recommendation covering things like how to implement the collection pattern for linked data: (from http://www.w3.org/)

Linked Data Platform 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation

26 February 2015 | Archive

The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Linked Data Platform 1.0.

spyysalo commented 9 years ago

OK, this sucks: http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-ldp-20150226/#h-ldprs-get-turtle

4.3.2.1 LDP servers MUST respond with a Turtle representation of the requested LDP-RS when the request includes an Accept header specifying text/turtle, unless HTTP content negotiation requires a different outcome [turtle].

It's hard enough to get people to add @context to their JSON, leading off with "this is a turtle-based API, but ..." will have them zoning out before you can say "content negotiation".

IMHO this is a dealbreaker for trying to follow the LDP spec in REST-OA core, but we could get conformance using a simple piece of middleware.

akuckartz commented 9 years ago

Yes, the LDP Working Group perhaps should better have selected JSON-LD as the primary RDF serialization. Wilful violations of the requirement to support Turtle can be considered.