On 11/4/10 12:33 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:

Yes, and a valid reason for making your choice :-) But as you state clearly, it remains a choice with regards to preferred technique.

All:

Where is the pointer (or URL) for a document that mandates 303's? The sense here being: 303 redirection as the only technique for delivering HTTP based Resolvable Names re. Linked Data.

Microsoft doesn't see OData as Linked Data (the concept) competition. They see it as an alternative format for representing Linked Data via E-A-V model graphs :-) As you can see, in this universe of ours, everything is connected, nothing exist in absolute isolation.

Some key points re. OData;

1. It models electronic records rather than real world objects 2. OData modeling ultimately matches any modeling that fails to distinguish a Web Resource from a Real World Object (any Entity that exists in some form outside the Web medium) via fixation -- overt or inadvertent -- on two-thirds of the Referent, Identifier, Resource trinity.

Links:

1. http://dbpedia.org/page/Paris -- notice OData and friends (Atom or JSON variants) in the footer of this HTML+RDFa resource 2. http://dbpedia.org/describe/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paris 3. http://uriburner.com/describe/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paris -- Ditto 4. http://dbpedia-live.openlinksw.com/describe/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paris -- Ditto 5. http://lod.openlinksw.com/describe/?uri=http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paris -- Ditto .

Regards,