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

Fri Apr 1 10:35:48 BST 2011

On 1 April 2011 22:33, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> [...]
>

Urgh ... time zones totally got me. I hate being in New Zealand sometimes.
Sorry for rant.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/attachments/20110401/d8e22510/attachment.htm>