Finding: The Self-Describing Web
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"Finding: The Self-Describing Web" is a W3C Technical Architecture Group document that explains how web resources should carry or link to enough metadata and semantics to allow automated agents and humans to understand and use them without prior agreement.
Statements (49)
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| instanceOf |
W3C TAG finding
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technical architecture document → web architecture guideline → |
| describesConcept |
data formats with embedded semantics
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human-understandable descriptions → link-based discovery of semantics → machine-understandable descriptions → protocol-level semantics → representation metadata → self-describing resource → vocabulary discovery → |
| emphasizes |
that understanding should not require out-of-band agreements
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the importance of self-describing messages in web architecture → |
| hasAuthor |
W3C Technical Architecture Group
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| hasGoal |
enable automated agents to understand web resources without prior agreement
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enable humans to understand web resources without prior agreement → improve interoperability across independently developed web systems → promote self-describing representations on the web → |
| hasTopic |
HTTP headers
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RDF → URI semantics → automated agents → content negotiation → decentralized extensibility → hypertext links → interoperability → linked data principles → machine-readable data → media types → metadata → resource representation → self-describing web → semantics → web architecture → web metadata discovery → web resource identification → |
| intendedAudience |
standards designers
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web architects → web developers → |
| publishedBy |
W3C
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World Wide Web Consortium → |
| recommends |
including sufficient metadata in resource representations
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using URIs to identify vocabularies and terms → using links to discover additional semantics → using protocol features such as HTTP headers to convey metadata → using standardized media types and profiles → |
| relatedTo |
Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
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W3C Technical Architecture Group findings → |
| supportsPrinciple |
REST self-descriptive messages
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W3C Technical Architecture Group
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