[tech] Draft RFC: RDF/Semantic web metadata embedding in gemini resources

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 09:22:47AM +0100,
 Luke Emmet <luke@marmaladefoo.com> wrote 
 a message of 58 lines which said:

> However my main concern is that the semantics of the links are not
> what they normally are in gemini. For example the URL links are
> schema references, rather than browsable content for users. So the
> normal processes of reading a hypertext gemini document and
> following a link to another gemini document don't apply and so you
> have to approach such an encoded document with the expectation that
> many of the links may not be normal links. This is somewhat of a
> cognitive overhead.

This specific issue could be solved by requiring that the URIs used as
identifiers are URLs, and reachable and have content. This is a common
requirment in the world of "linked data" and other semantic stuff
<https://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#dereferenceable-uris>
<https://explore.dublincore.net/competency_index/d2695955/s2696018/s2696061/s2742457/s2742458/>.

Let's quote the inventor of the Web
<https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html>: "Use HTTP URIs so
that people can look up those names."

This is an old issue
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Mar/0092>.