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Essential Reading for the Web of Trust

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Essential RDF context is now required reading for anyone building the web of trust. Sometimes I feel the issue of *who* created the assertion is quietly swept under the rug. That information is extremely important, for I would want to tell my reasoner to trust statements about diseases from the Deptment of Health over Joe Bob any day.

This goes back to the problem of context for a triple. Who said it? When was it said? Was it signed (cryptographically)?