{"id":209,"date":"2003-11-10T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=104"},"modified":"2003-11-10T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T12:42:00","slug":"nelson-minar-on-rdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2003\/11\/nelson-minar-on-rdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Minar on RDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelson.monkey.org\/~nelson\/weblog\/tech\/semanticWeb.html\">Nelson writes;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nEach of the individual applications using RDF I know of could have been done more easily with plain XML\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Absolutely and unapologetically true.<\/p>\n\n<p>But the statement misses the critical\nlesson of software architecture (and architecture in general); only by\napplying constraints can one realize useful properties.  RDF\/XML based apps\nhave more useful properties than does an XML based app; specifically,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/09\/Blog\/\/2003\/11\/10#2003-11-silos\">&#8220;data silos&#8221;<\/a>\nare avoided.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nelson writes; Each of the individual applications using RDF I know of could have been done more easily with plain XML Absolutely and unapologetically true. But the statement misses the critical lesson of software architecture (and architecture in general); only by applying constraints can one realize useful properties. RDF\/XML based apps have more useful properties [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}