Network Working Group D. Connolly Internet-Draft World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Category: Informational March 2001 <draft-connolly-rdf-media-type-00.txt>
see: mime-types-for-rdf-docs raised Wed, 14 Jun 2000.
I'm looking for a co-author to do the other 80% of the work.
$Revision: 1.9 $ of $Date: 2001/03/23 19:09:48 $
@@a few words about RDF
@@note that publication of RDF in HTTP or sending via SMTP amounts to asserting the content.
application
The optional parameter "charset" refers to the character encoding used to represent the HTML document as a sequence of bytes. Any registered IANA charset may be used, but UTF-8 is preferred.
Although this parameter is optional, it is strongly recommended that it always be present. [@@really??]
@@See Section 6 below for a discussion of charset default rules.
(PRISM uses a different one)
Additional information:
Magic number:
@@look for RDF ns URI?
File extension:
The file extension 'rdf' is commonly used. (also: .rss?)
Macintosh File Type code:
@@???TEXT
Person & email address to contact for further information:
Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> (anybody want their name in lights in my stead?)
Intended usage:
COMMON
Author/Change controller: The RDF specification is a work product of the World Wide Web Consortium.
@@ The URI specification [URI] notes that the semantics of a fragment identifier (part of a URI after a "#") is a property of the data resulting from a retrieval action, and that the format and interpretation of fragment identifiers is dependent on the media type of the retrieval result.
see mime/XML spec
@@skip this section?>
From [XMLMT]:
8.18 Application/rdf+xml
Content-type: application/rdf+xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
RDF documents identified using this MIME type are XML documents whose content describes metadata, as defined by [RDF]. As a format based on XML, RDF documents SHOULD use the '+xml' suffix convention in their MIME content-type identifier. However, no content type has yet been registered for RDF and so this media type should not be used until such registration has been completed.
Andy Powell, for raising the issue.
Jim Davis for his HTML->internet-draft tool (Makefile)
Larry Masinter for help with process gunk on our last RFC.
Ron Daniel for his message pointing me at section 8.18 of RFC3023 (again?).
oops... I thought RDF would fit under mode/*, but after readingRFC2077, I see model/* is about physica/spacial models only, not about abstract models in general. Is there a UML media type registered yet?
Daniel W. Connolly
World Wide Web Consortum (W3C)
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
mailto:connolly@w3.org
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/