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  • The Web is designed to support flexible exploration of information by human users and by automated agents.
    For such exploration to be productive,
    information published by many different sources and for a variety of
    purposes must be comprehensible to a wide range of Web client software.
    HTTP and other Web technologies can be used to deploy resources that are
    self-describing, in the sense that only widely available information is necessary for understanding them.
    Starting with a URI, there is a standard algorithm that a user agent
    can apply to retrieve and interpret a representation of such resources.
    Furthermore, when such self-describing resources are linked together, the Web as a whole can support reliable,
    ad hoc discovery of information.
    This finding describes how document formats, markup conventions, attribute values, and other data formats can be designed to facilitate the deployment of self-describing Web content.
  • The Web is designed to support flexible exploration of information, by human users and by automated agents.
    For such exploration to be productive,
    information published by many different sources and for a wide variety of
    purposes must be comprehensible to a wide variety of Web client software.
    This finding suggests that there are three strategies that, used in combination, can ensure
    such flexible interoperability: 1) where practical, resource representations should be encoded using widely deployed standards; 2) where such widely deployed standards are not sufficient, the encodings used should themselves be described in machine readable form on the Web, using RDF, RDDL, or other standard description systems; and 3) in all cases, each representation should carry information such as media-types, character encoding labels, RDFa, links to specifications, etc. sufficient to support automatic determination of the standards and other specifications necessary for correct interpretation.
    To the extent that these guidelines are observed, individual documents become self-describing, in the sense that only widely available information is necessary for understanding them.
    Furthermore, when such documents are linked together, the Web as a whole can support reliable,
    ad hoc discovery of information.
    This finding discusses in more detail the techniques needed to create such a self-describing Web.

This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 23 May 2007, by Jon Phipps.

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    • The Web is designed to support flexible exploration of information by human users and by automated agents.
      For such exploration to be productive,
      information published by many different sources and for a variety of
      purposes must be comprehensible to a wide range of Web client software.
      HTTP and other Web technologies can be used to deploy resources that are
      self-describing, in the sense that only widely available information is necessary for understanding them.
      Starting with a URI, there is a standard algorithm that a user agent
      can apply to retrieve and interpret a representation of such resources.
      Furthermore, when such self-describing resources are linked together, the Web as a whole can support reliable,
      ad hoc discovery of information.
      This finding describes how document formats, markup conventions, attribute values, and other data formats can be designed to facilitate the deployment of self-describing Web content.
    • The Web is designed to support flexible exploration of information, by human users and by automated agents.
      For such exploration to be productive,
      information published by many different sources and for a wide variety of
      purposes must be comprehensible to a wide variety of Web client software.
      This finding suggests that there are three strategies that, used in combination, can ensure
      such flexible interoperability: 1) where practical, resource representations should be encoded using widely deployed standards; 2) where such widely deployed standards are not sufficient, the encodings used should themselves be described in machine readable form on the Web, using RDF, RDDL, or other standard description systems; and 3) in all cases, each representation should carry information such as media-types, character encoding labels, RDFa, links to specifications, etc. sufficient to support automatic determination of the standards and other specifications necessary for correct interpretation.
      To the extent that these guidelines are observed, individual documents become self-describing, in the sense that only widely available information is necessary for understanding them.
      Furthermore, when such documents are linked together, the Web as a whole can support reliable,
      ad hoc discovery of information.
      This finding discusses in more detail the techniques needed to create such a self-describing Web.