Talk:Resource Description Framework
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[edit] Self-reference
Per Avoid self-references, should this article really link to an RDF dump of Wikipedia's contents (under the "RDF Files" section)? – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 04:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- It is an example of self-reference, but much milder than the examples given in Wikipedia:Avoid self-references. Its removal would not detract much. If you feel bothered by it, remove it. cygri 20:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I am removing it. However, Example 2 is more serious self-reference problem and should be removed if someone can write a good second example (I don't have the technical knowledge of RDF to do it); the first simple one is not enough. However, there is a world of examples to choose from, which makes a WP article a particularly poor choice. One reason for the Wikipedia:Avoid self-references policy is that it makes WP look amateurish and therefore less authoritative. EB doesn't do it in the many articles where it could use itself as an example. Finell (Talk) 21:33, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Planet RDF
I added a link to planetrdf.com since that site really is the hub of all RDF-related development. Subsequent edit took it out citing policy against linking to blogs. I'd contest that - planetrdf.com is an aggregator for RDF-related news and is central to the RDF community. Omitting it seems detrimental to this article. – Ian Davis
- The site was described as a blog aggregator, and per Wikipedia:External links blogs are normally to be avoided. If you feel that this link is important, I won't oppose you adding it again, but I would appreciate it if you would explain here in some detail how it is important to the article. That would also help if somepne else comes along and also sees that it is a blog. -- Donald Albury 01:10, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Here comes someone else in support of Ian, and re-insertion of the link to Planet RDF. RDF community is a reality, and Planet RDF is a hub for this community. I understand why links to blogs should generally be avoided (they often provide non-neutral, biased or extreme viewpoints), but since Planet RDF is aggregating many blogs, this makes for multiplicity of viewpoints. universimmedia 07:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- (Disclosure: Ian Davis, universimmedia, and me are all syndicated at Planet RDF.) Is a blog search engine a blog? No. Neither is a blog aggregator. The link should be in the article. Planet RDF is the most substantial source of RDF-related news and includes almost all of the important voices of the RDF community, including several members of the W3C's working groups that have developed RDF. The policy cited above explicitly does not apply to sources “written by a recognized authority”. Since Planet RDF is an aggregator of more than 50 sources, it is very different in nature from a single-author blog, and I do not see how the cited policy applies. (I leave it to someone else to re-add the link because of the obvious conflict of interest.) cygri 20:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Here comes someone else in support of Ian, and re-insertion of the link to Planet RDF. RDF community is a reality, and Planet RDF is a hub for this community. I understand why links to blogs should generally be avoided (they often provide non-neutral, biased or extreme viewpoints), but since Planet RDF is aggregating many blogs, this makes for multiplicity of viewpoints. universimmedia 07:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] RDF data model vs. RDF/XML syntax
The article should discuss the difference between the RDF data model (a.k.a RDF Abstract Syntax) and the RDF/XML syntax. As it stands, the article mostly discusses the data model, but the file format infobox refers to the RDF/XML syntax, and the term RDF/XML is used throughout the article without the necessary introduction. cygri 09:05, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
