[ckan-discuss] PDF to replace RDF as primary format for data.southampton

Fri Apr 1 10:33:59 BST 2011

On 1 April 2011 10:26, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> On 1 April 2011 19:51, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Due to the flak we got over my comments about PDF last week, we've been
>> forced to re-evaluate it.
>>
>> We've made the difficult decision that RDF will no longer be the preferred
>> format for information interchange on our data site. Full details about the
>> decision here:
>> http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/2011/04/01/pdf-selected-as-interchange-format/
>
> This is a real shame. PDF is a presentation format for documents, not a
> format for the interchange of data. I don't understand how PDF can be said
> to facilitate "exchanging data"[1].

Just to clarify Tim: this is an April fool!

Rufus

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