Re: Linked Data formats [was Re: Potential Formal Object from DERI over JSON-LD]

On 10/23/12 8:50 AM, Guus Schreiber wrote:
> [not a response to Peter, but to the discussion in general]
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> This is an interesting and important discussion, but I'm not sure it 
> deserves much WG time at this point in time. We are the RDF WG and we 
> have to consider what we require of (the normative documentation of) 
> the relationship between RDF and JSON-LD.
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> Guus

Guus,

The key to solving a problem is understanding the problem. I'll try to 
break it down, one more time.

You have RDF, JSON-LD, and a non existent thing called JSON-RDF+LD .

There is an argument about JSON-LD that's really all about JSON-RDF+LD. 
That's it.

Kingsley
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> On 23-10-2012 14:19, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> I'm with Pat on this one.
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>> It is true that I don't understand this view of linked data, but I don't
>> think that the fault here lies in me. This set of principles is too
>> vague to be anything more than a slogan. It appears that just about any
>> logic can be used, even truly weird ones, by simply using IRIs for
>> identifiers.
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>> If Linked Data was
>> - use dereferenceable IRIs for identifiers
>> - have a semantics where identifiers globally denote
>> - have a common semantic framework
>> - if you coin a new IRI use one that you control
>> - use IRIs coined by others where possible
>> - when someone asks for the document at an IRI provide information that
>> you believe about what you believe the IRI to denote
>> - provide information in a well-known syntax under the common semantic
>> framework
>> Then I would be happier.
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>> I would be even happier if Linked Data utilized the RDF(S)(++)(+)
>> semantics and the syntaxes were for RDF graphs.
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>> peter
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>> On 10/23/2012 07:25 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
>>> Hi Pat,
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>>> On 23 Oct 2012, at 03:07, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>>>>> I would be very interested to discover what y'all consider the be
>>>>>> the definition of Linked Data. Can you provide a pointer to where
>>>>>> this can be found? Thanks in advance.
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
>>>> This is completely vacuous, almost a textbook example of a Wikipedia
>>>> article that is free of content (there are quite a number of them.)
>>>> For example, it begins, " linked data describes a method of
>>>> publishing structured data" but it then does not tell us what this
>>>> "method" actually is. Which is what my query was asking for. What
>>>> actually IS "linked data"? If I were shown some data, or a data
>>>> storage scheme of some kind, how would I know if it were an example
>>>> of linked data? How would I tell? What criteria would I use to detect
>>>> the presence of "linkedness" in the data? (Can anyone give me an
>>>> example of data that is not linked data, and tell me why it isn't?
>>>> That would be a start.)
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data#Principles
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>>>> That is great, but how would anyone know that this is what they were
>>>> in fact doing? Does just using JSON + using URIs make it linked data?
>>>> Apparently not, according to the Wikipedia article, which says that
>>>> linked data pre-dates URIs.
>>> No, it says that the general idea predates URIs (and that claim is
>>> flagged with [citation needed]), but that the term was coined by
>>> TimBL. Following the references you'll see that his original article
>>> prominently features URIs.
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>>>> So what is it that makes the linked magic happen?
>>> See the link above.
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>>>> This is completely vacuous
>>>> free of content
>>>> empty phrase devoid of meaning
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>>> Translation Pat => English: “I don't understand it.”
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>>> Best,
>>> Richard
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>>>> Pat
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>>>>> That's great. However, there's a thin line between saying “we enable
>>>>> LD with JSON” and “JSON-LD is how you do LD”. The JSON-LD spec
>>>>> really ought to say only the first thing, but slips into implying
>>>>> the second too often.
>>>>>
>>>>> Attempting to enforce a particular implementation technology for
>>>>> Linked Data, be it RDF or JSON or Atom or Microdata or whatever,
>>>>> doesn't work. This is what Kingsley keeps repeating on a daily
>>>>> basis, and he's right.
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>>>>> The fact that a JSON-LD document also can be parsed to an RDF graph
>>>>> is mostly orthogonal to this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Richard
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