Hypermedia and the semantic web

• @mamund has an IDL proposal for hypermedia APIs and mapping to transports
• Hypermedia uses URNs and common Semantic types such as Schema.org and Dublin Core
• Hypermedia: Starting from the small use case and practical schema, working towards the big problem
• RDFa/Microformats: Great example of how simple formats can be powerful
• Semantic information as decorators
• Stop inventing new formats - no more snowflakes
• Hypermedia controls combined with semantics provide you a way to map data to actions
• "It's useless if you have a generic way to perform actions, but you can't describe what you're performing them on"
• You can apply multiple vocabularies to the same entities
• Everything doesn't have to be part of the same hierarchy, and that's OK. Agreement is the most important part