Proposal to remove Link header option from Resource Preview spec

I suggest we remove the Compact Link header [1] in favor of an oslc:compact property. We would also remove oslc:compacts (the inverse). My reasoning:

We're already using 'compact' in the Prefer response.

We use property 'compact' for our JSON and inverse property 'compacts' elsewhere. This is inconsistent and confusing.

Compact resources can be included in a query response as discussed during the call today (e.g., oslc.select=*,oslc.compact{*})

Then if you GET a resource (no Prefer header), it would have a triple

	<> <oslc:compact> <compact-uri>

or optionally have the Compact representation inlined.

With the Prefer header, it would continue to look like Example 3 [2].

[1] http://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/oslc-core/specs/resource-preview.html#linkHeader

[2] http://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/browse/wsvn/oslc-core/specs/resource-preview.html#preferenceAppliedJsonLDExample

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Samuel Padgett | IBM Rational | 

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