"If a human went to wolfram.data, there’d be a structured summary of what data the organization behind it wanted to expose. And if a computational system went there, it’d find just what it needs to ingest the data, and begin computing with it."
This sounds to me like a high-level description of how the web is supposed to work today, only implemented using a new TLD instead of HTTP headers.
It sounds odd to me, coming from someone whose major web service sends all results -- even text and tables -- as GIF.
Good point re Accept: headers, though I think discoverable formats (such as <link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="data.rdf" />) are even better.
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"If a human went to wolfram.data, there’d be a structured summary of what data the organization behind it wanted to expose. And if a computational system went there, it’d find just what it needs to ingest the data, and begin computing with it."
This sounds to me like a high-level description of how the web is supposed to work today, only implemented using a new TLD instead of HTTP headers.
It sounds odd to me, coming from someone whose major web service sends all results -- even text and tables -- as GIF.
Good point re Accept: headers, though I think discoverable formats (such as <link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="data.rdf" />) are even better.