{"id":781,"date":"2011-10-27T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/?p=781"},"modified":"2011-10-27T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T18:49:17","slug":"introducing-primarytopic-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2011\/10\/27\/introducing-primarytopic-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing primaryTopic.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a ago I took the now traditional RDF-newbie step of getting het-up about HTTP-14.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2010\/11\/04\/nobody-needs-a-303\/\">http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2010\/11\/04\/nobody-needs-a-303\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyhow, I&#8217;m older and wiser (or at least more tired). One thing that did stick with me from the above-linked ramble is that it would be really useful to have a neat and simple way to refer to the topic of a page. Many normal humans don&#8217;t get data issues like URIs, unique-primary keys and jokes about &#8220;This is not a pipe.&#8221;. I&#8217;m interested in ways to enable stuff for the 99% of web users who are not data nerds.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the thinking on this was a good friend who suggested that we should just give up on distinguishing between URI and document URL and let common sense figure out what we&#8217;re talking about. I kicked around some really dumb ideas of extending the URI scheme in some way to do this. Today I hit on a much much more simple solution.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the URI for a music video I like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4nigRT2KmCE\">http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4nigRT2KmCE<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>of the species Womp Rat, which doesn&#8217;t rate a page to itself in wikipedia so doesn&#8217;t get a dbpediaURI:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstarwars.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FWomp_rat\">http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstarwars.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FWomp_rat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>me:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fusers.ecs.soton.ac.uk%2Fcjg%2F\">http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fusers.ecs.soton.ac.uk%2Fcjg%2F<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>and more usefully, the SVG tutorial at the 2002 WWW Conference. This one actually indicates the primary topic of a fragment of a document. That works fine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2002.org%2Ftueschedule.html%23TP3\">http:\/\/primarytopic.net\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2002.org%2Ftueschedule.html%23TP3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>OK. You can mint your own URIs, but this means less URI proliferation than each service minting URIs they don&#8217;t really need to be resolved to their own triples. I reckon this will work very nicely with <a href=\"http:\/\/sameas.org\/\">http:\/\/sameas.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My anticipation is that it&#8217;s useful to ask people for data about, say, an event or organisation by asking for the URL of the thing and then using this to construct a URI. If someone else is building data using the same system then your data links. Which is what we&#8217;re about, right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Suggestions very welcome. I&#8217;ve kept this dead simple for now as it doesn&#8217;t need to be comlicated. To save everyone license headaches I&#8217;ve made the whole thing CC0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a ago I took the now traditional RDF-newbie step of getting het-up about HTTP-14. http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2010\/11\/04\/nobody-needs-a-303\/ Anyhow, I&#8217;m older and wiser (or at least more tired). 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