[occi-wg] References in OCCI schema (JSON) and W3C Linked Data

[Michael Behrens]

Also, take a look at:
http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html

Gary Mazz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry this took so long, the day job and family  stuff is taking up time.
>
>  I took a deeper dive into W3C Linked Data as input to reconciling References for the JSON specification.Linked Data is a mechanism to create a "web of data".  Under the W3C, 
> Linked Data is identified and addressed though HTTP URIs.  Currently, the W3C has Linked Data defined in several specifications including RDF, RDFa, GRDDL, POWDER, Semantic 
> Annotation and Provenance. Many of W3C work products are implemented using XML data representations.
>
> In some cases, identified OCCI and external Resources will not always be addressable by HTTP.  In some environments, URIs are required to be defined as non-HTTP URLs. Service 
> Location Protocol RFC2808, commonly used by iSCSI servers, is one such case.  iSCSI is another case.
>
> The OCCI Core document defines an 'id' attribute for all Entity objects (Resources and Links) as a URI. No reference to HTTP is included with the URI definition.  In this case, 
> URI is intended to be media agnostic.
>
> In OCCI's HTTP specification, OCCI URIs are defined as HTTP URI with no recognizable support for alternate media identifiers ie iSCSI. One position on this practice is that 
> Alternate Identifiers could be considered implicitly defined in the rendering specification of an OCCI Reference.   However, a more pragmatic commentary of this practice would 
> consider Alternate Identifiers as undefined strings. A best practice could consider the Mixin as a vehicle to specify URI media type.
>
> This email does not draw conclusions of make any significant recommendations. It has the sole purpose to identify issues surrounding Refernces and links for JSON rendering 
> specification. Discussion is the obvious next step towards reconciliation.
>
> cheers,
> gary
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> occi-wg mailing list
> occi-wg at ogf.org
> https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/occi-wg
>