Nick Gall

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The Battle Between the Two Gods of Hypermedia: The Reader and The Writer

by Nick Gall  |  September 17, 2010  |  2 Comments

[This is a continuation of a discussion of the “shape of the web” that started in Twitter and then moved to Richard Veryard’s blog: What shape is the Internet.] Glad we agree on the 1st point. On the 2nd point, I’m not sure Tim’s vision of hypermedia was all that "innocent". I think both Tim [...]

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Linked Data: Turning Stovepiped Data Into a Web of Data

by Nick Gall  |  September 19, 2008  |  6 Comments

In talking with clients about SOA, WOA, and application integration generally, the conversation often turns to best practices for their IFaPs (Identifiers, Formats, and Protocols). First I always stress, as Tim Berners-Lee does, that of the three (I,F, and P) — Identifiers are by far the most important to information sharing. After all, the Web [...]

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