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Making RDF easy enough for most developers
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Namespaces linked to within RDF can have broken links #94

Closed PSFW closed 2 months ago

PSFW commented 2 years ago

Namespaces that are included in RDF examples can have broken links for example in this documentation. Could decentralisation help with this? i.e. IPFS. Having hashed links for ontologies could have a helpful side effect with versioning too.

As a beginner discovery is difficult when you have well formed ontologies that then link to namespaces that no longer exist.

PSFW commented 2 months ago

After further research (and being ignored here), I've found a possible solution to this in Decentralised Mutable Containers - Content Addressing, which ironically also is a broken link, hence the Wayback Machine link. Decentralised Mutable Containers allow you to address RDF content in fragment graphs, which can then be stored for example in IPFS.

I can't be the only person that is frustrated with the amount of broken links in documentation, but I am obviously the only person that thinks this is a barrier for RDF. I am closing this issue.

dbooth-boston commented 2 months ago

The problem of broken links is not specific to RDF, so I didn't feel like I had anything useful to add about it.