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Re: RDDL and user interface


Re:  RDDL and user interface
Jonathan Borden (jonathan@o...) wrote:
> Eric Hanson wrote:
> >
> >
> > One thing to note is that RDDL is centralized; the descriptor is
> > stored at the namespace URI.  It's designed to point to schemas
> > and other things that go along with making a namespace, so
> > having it controlled by the namespace owner is fine in this
> > context.  In the application domain though, third parties should
> > be able to write a handler for a type of data without having to
> > work with the namespace owner to add it to their RDDL file.
> >
> 
> Although it is convenient to store a RDDL file so that it will be 
> returned on dereferencing a namespace URI (i.e. store the RDDL document 
> "at" the namespace URI) this is not necessary. RDDL is a *language* and 
> RDDL documents might be stored *locally* ... for example add a 
> reference to the local file in an XML catalog.
> 
> It is true that it is *designed* to be suitable as a format to return 
> on dereferencing a namespace URI, but this does not make RDDL 
> centralized ... hardly ...

Yeah ok, centralized probably isn't the right word here, and I
didn't mean to imply that the language itself is centralized.
Just I think there needs to be a way for third parties to
associate resources with a namespace in such a way that they can
be found using just the namespace.

> On the other hand if you really want to disassociate information about 
> namespace URIs from mechanisms used to dereference the URI e.g. DNS 
> HTTP etc, RDF is an excellent choice.

Will you talk more about this?  The thing that made RDDL
attractive is:

* it's designed specifically to describe a directory of resources 
  associated with a namespace
* nature/purpose are perfect

Not using RDDL is fine with me but maybe I could borrow the
nature/purpose concepts?

Eric

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