Re: "DOM" for RDF?

I think my conclusion from the DOM experience was that actually
people wanted jQuery -- something optimized for the language.

My own RDF APIs have been optimized for js and python respectively,
though they share style and many calls. 

See undocumented rdflib.js  https://github.com/linkeddata/rdflib.js/

I can still think of further optimizations to make writing code
even smoother.

Timbl


On 2013-12 -02, at 11:00, Richard Light wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm sure this has been discussed many times and/or ages ago, but I am struck by the absence of a DOM-like W3C framework for RDF. By this, I mean "an application programming interface (API) for [RDF graphs]", which will be "a standard programming interface that can be used in a wide variety of environments and applications. The [RDF] DOM is designed to be used with any programming language". (Quotes taken from [1])
> 
> A quick search turns up a number of PHP-based libraries, and the odd one for javascript, Delphi, Python and Ruby, but as far as I can see there is little, or no, commonality of approach or functionality amongst these offerings.  This means that a programmer (a) has to decide which of these widely varying approaches to adopt, (b) only gets whatever documentation each chooses to provide and (c) is faced with a complete rewrite, should they decide to switch RDF platform.
> 
> Might this situation be a significant factor in the slow take-up of RDF by mainstream developers?
> 
> Richard
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/introduction.html
> 
> -- 
> Richard Light