14 Jun
2010
14 Jun
'10
9:04 a.m.
On 2010-06-13, at 21:17, fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:58:11PM -0400, Jeremy
wrote:
So, the plugin contains a certain amount of "metadata". Things like the licence,
the author, where to go and find documentation, and so on.
The DOAP and FOAF schemas can express this information and are widely used on the internet
(there are in excess of 200M FOAF files out there), so reusing their structures makes
sense.
I would like to add that as a beginner to LV2
plugins, I found the use of
urls to be *extremely* confusing.
Glad to know I'm not the only one.
If your goal is to have documentation easily
accessible, then a line
<docurl=http://blah> would serve the purpose just as well. The way it's
currently set up, you have no idea if the URL is dereferenceable, or even
supposed to be dereferenceable.
I've been wondering what is the purpose of things like:
@prefix : <http://lv2plug.in/ns/lv2core#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema> .
@prefix doap: <http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
where 'doap' stands for 'Description Of A Project', and
'foaf' for 'Friend Of A Friend'. If this has to be part of an LV2 plugin somehow (and
it's not
clear if it has to be or not), AND whatever software that is
reading this is *not* supposed to follow these links and find
some information there, what is the purpose ?
http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2.ttl defines what data must be present.
If these things are not a required part of any LV2
file, what
are they doing in the documentation (except confusing people) ?
I'm more and more convinced that people creating these sort of
thing entertain the illusion that they somehow create meaning
while there is none. It looks more like an extreme form of
illiteracy, a complete failure to convey meaning in a form that
makes sense to a human.
Oh joy. Random ad hominem attacks remind me why I lost interest in the free software
"community".
I'm not quite sure why you have come to such a dismissive conclusion, of a technology
that you admit you don't understand. It's always possible that the many thousands
of companies using this technology to solve real world problems are operating under some
sort of mass hysteria of course, but I don't think so.
If you actually care, and that is not just an attempt at rabble-rousing, try reading
something at http://linkeddata.org/guides-and-tutorials -
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html is particularly clear and to the point.
- Steve