[HN Gopher] An Introduction to the Resource Description Framewor...
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       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
        
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