- From: Nicholas Car via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 23:34:27 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
nicholascar has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/dxwg: == Use case: web browser-accessible profile information == ### Use case: web browser-accessible profile information Status: Proposed Identifier: Creator: Nicholas Car Deliverable(s): Content Negotiation ## Tags conneg profile ## Stakeholders data consumer ## Problem statement For human Linked Data data consumers, it is difficult to use HTTP headers such as `Accept` to perform content negotiation. Web browsers, the primary tool humans use to access Internet resources, do not lend themselves easily to HTTP header setting for non-advanced users. In addition to any HTTP Content Negotitation-based approaches to navigate available profiles of information about a resource, we wish to provide a web-browser-friendly equivalent methods for humans. ## Existing approaches Established practice in Australian science agencies is to have a catalogue server that is able to respond to Query String Arguments (QSA) in place of, or even overriding, HTTP headers. When using the [Geoscience Australia Samples Catalogue](http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/samples/), data consumers are able to ask for different profiles of metadata about samples using a `_view` QSA and different formats either using the HTTP Accept header or a `_format` QSA which, if present, will override the Accept header. For [Sample AU239](http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/sample/AU239), some available profiles and the formats they are available in are: Name|Token|Formats|Namespace|Description ----|----|----|---- PROV Ontology | prov | text/html, text/turtle, application/rdf+xml | http://www.w3.org/ns/prov/ | The W3C's provenance data model SOSA Ontology | sosa | text/turtle, application/rdf+xml, application/rdf+json | http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/ | The W3C's Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator ontology within the Semantic Sensor Networks ontology IGSN Schema 1 | igsn-r1 | text/xml | http://schema.igsn.org/description/1.0 | Version 1 of the official IGSN XML schema ## Links ''Optional link list to documents and projects this use case refers to'' ## Requirements ''Mandatory requirements suggested by this use case'' * Imperative sentence starting with a verb each describing an individual task in order to solve the stated problem ## Related use cases ''Optional references to related local (refer to anchor identifier <nowiki>[[#Id...]]</nowiki>) and remote use cases (e.g. POE-WG UCs)''. ## Comments ''Optional section for editorial comments, suggestion and their interactive resolution'' --- Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/239 using your GitHub account
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