Re: Potential Formal Object from DERI over JSON-LD

On 10/19/12 10:43 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:
>> There should be many more occurrences of "RDF" than "linked data".
> Number of times 'RDF' is mentioned in the spec: 59
> Number of times 'linked data' is mentioned    : 30
>
> Although, this is a bad metric for any spec, imho.
>
Bad metric for something called JSON-LD.

Acceptable metric for something called JSON-RDF+LD or something like that.

"Big Elephant in the room" is still the fact that we instinctively 
conflate RDF (data model, structured data representation, URI based 
entity denotation, and *explicit* entity relationship semantics) and 
Linked Data (data model, structured data representation, 
*de-referencable* URI based entity denotation,  and *implicit* or 
*explicit* entity relationship semantics).

All we have to do is get terminology right modulo politically induced 
insecurities re. RDF.

Once again, RDF and Linked Data are loosely coupled and individually 
useful. Once you conflate them everything falls apart and both suffer.


The Web succeeds because it has loose coupling at its core. Deviate from 
the essence of the Web's loosely coupled architecture and it all falls 
apart, predictably.


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