On 3 April, W3C announced the publication of the “Linked Data Basic Profile 1.0” specification as a W3C Member Submission.
This specification was elaborated as a joint effort by a group of experts from IBM, DERI, EMC, Oracle, Red Hat, SemanticWeb.com and Tasktop, as a consequence of the agreement on “The Linked Enterprise Data Patterns workshop“ on creating a W3C Working Group to produce a W3C Recommendation which defines a Linked Data Platform.
The specification defines a set of best practices and a simple approach for using HTTP for accessing, updating, creating and deleting resources from servers that expose their resources as Linked Data, using RDF. The specification is based on the four principles to define Linked Data (from Tim Berners-Lee) but brings in a couple of new rules and provides some extensions and clarifications to them. The objective is to achieve more interoperability between Linked Data implementations.
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FYI, the specifications presented there are very much inspired by the OSLC specifications that have started to be implemented in ALM/PLM tools for quite a while, which seek to promote interoperability between software from different vendors.
See some more details in http://open-services.net/blog/new-developerworks-article-toward-a-basic…