Linked Data Notifications

Description

  • (LDN) supports sharing and reuse of notifications across applications, regardless of how they were generated. This allows for more modular systems, which decouple data storage from the applications which display or otherwise make use of the data. The protocol is intended to allow senders, receivers and consumers of notifications, which are independently implemented and run on different technology stacks, to seamlessly work together, contributing to decentralisation of our interactions on the Web.

Instead of treating notifications as ephemeral or non-persistent entities, this specification enables the notion of a notification as an individual entity with its own URI.

Comparisons

WebSub vs Linked Data Notification

  • WebSub:

    • Prioritize simplicity and established usage.
    • Need immediate distribution of content updates without a focus on detailed structure.
    • Primarily concerned with human-readable content.
  • LDN:

    • Require structured notifications that can be easily integrated with other Semantic Web systems.
    • Want notifications themselves discoverable and queryable.
    • Machine interpretability is a strong requirement.


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