Comments on: REST design question #4: how much normalization? http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/22/rest-design-question-how-much-normalization/ Open information and technology. Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:40:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Danny http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/22/rest-design-question-how-much-normalization/#comment-101 Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:24:11 +0000 /?p=24#comment-101 I think the RDF version does force you to be more explicit about the nature of the label (and really it uses the URI as an identifier, there’s not inbuilt notion of linking), but that doesn’t make it much more messy:

<director rdf:about=”http://www.example.org/objects/014002.xml/487847.xml” xxx:name=”John Hughes” />

There is quite a bit of information being conveyed here, the direct statements being:

487847.xml rdf:type yyy:director
487847.xml xxx:name “John Hughes”

but also by inference:
487847.xml rdf:type rdfs:Resource
yyy:director rdf:type rdfs:Class
xxx:name rdf:type rdf:Property
etc.

]]> By: AsynchronousBlog http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/22/rest-design-question-how-much-normalization/#comment-100 Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:53:19 +0000 /?p=24#comment-100 RE: REST Design Question #4, part 2
In response to Dave’s update… Responding to the RDF bits, I guess RDF/XML makes what you’re trying to express a bit more verbose, but it’s hard to call it difficult. It’d end up being… <!– … –> <director rdf:about=”12345.html”&gt…

]]> By: AsynchronousBlog http://quoderat.megginson.com/2005/02/22/rest-design-question-how-much-normalization/#comment-99 Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:51:03 +0000 /?p=24#comment-99 RE: REST Design Question #4
Dave Megginson’s 4th REST Design Question … I don’t see how this is REST design question in particular. I think questions and concerns like this are why a number of RESTafarians are also RDF-heads. I think the ultimate response to…

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