[HN Gopher] An Introduction to the Resource Description Framewor... ___________________________________________________________________ An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework (1998) Author : tosh Score : 20 points Date : 2020-07-22 20:11 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.dlib.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.dlib.org) | DLA wrote: | Why do people post wikipedia links with absolutely no context or | comment? | dang wrote: | wikipedia.org is penalized on HN the same way that most major | media sites are. We took the penalty off a while back, but had | to put it back on because there were too many generic | submissions: | https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... | | Wikipedia submissions are ok when the topic is obscure and | there isn't any other good third party article to submit. | They're bad when the topic is generic or well-covered. | Wikipedia itself is already a generic site, and the combination | of generic site and generic topic leads to low-quality | discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix | =true&que.... But when the topic is unpredictable and mostly | unheard-of, such submissions can be quite good. | | In this case a bit of googling revealed a 1998 article that | hasn't been discussed on HN before, so I've changed the URL to | that from | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework. | Any other good non-obvious article would have done as well; | people will probably mostly comment on RDF and the semantic web | in general. | JadeNB wrote: | I often find Wikipedia-only links handy to introduce me to | topics that I never even knew existed--that is, where, in some | sense, "this topic exists" is interesting in itself. | | One particularly memorable one was | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/199_398_500_A (though I can no | longer find the HN link to it); it's then easy enough for me to | Google around for more context if I care to do so. | tosh wrote: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011467 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-23 23:00 UTC)