Deprecation of Link Type Resource (LTR)
The Link Type Resource was originally created for the AM v 1.0 specification (that was never finalized, in favor of aligning with core 2.0). Its primary motivation was to provide a dynamic means for clients to obtain localized information about the types of link predicates that the service provider supported.
As the OSLC Core moves towards a more pure linked lifecycle data model, this resource type may no longer be necessary. In well defined ontologies all predicates should be directly resolvable. The resolution in RDF form should include some information about the predicate including rdfs:label and rdfs:comment.
Outstanding issues on deprecating this resource type include:
- default behavor for predicates that are not resolvable
- migration of AM 2.0 clients dependent on LTR
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JimConallen - 30 Jan 2012
Topic revision: r1 - 30 Jan 2012 - 19:29:39 -
JimConallen