Evolving the Web (Semantic Web)

• The vision of Tim Berners-Lee is to turn the Web into a semantic Web[1].

• One of the key components of his vision is that every resource on the Web have its own URI.

  • Axiom 0: Universality 1
    • Any resource anywhere can be given a URI
  • Axiom 0a: Universality 2
    • Any resource of significance should be given a URI.

• The REST style is consistent with this vision - every resource has a logical URI.

• SOAP URI's are funneled through a single URI to the SOAP server. This is not consistent with the semantic Web vision.

[1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html

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