- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:59:33 +0100
- To: Johannes Koch <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- CC: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Hi Johannes, all, Johannes Koch wrote: > Hi group > > Michael A Squillace schrieb: > >> We would like to know whether or not the ERT WG would be open to >> permitting >> the serialization of EARL reports in JSON (and possibly other formats), >> leaving the RDF as the modeling mechanism for the vocabulary. > > I don't see any problems in permitting the serialization of EARL reports > in JSON, as long as this has no requirements on the EARL structure. The > EARL Schema spec mentions other serializations besides RDF/XML. The only > problem could be that the tools producing EARL/JSON would not be > conforming "EARL 1.0 Core Producers" according to section 4.2 of the > EARL Schema spec if they can't do RDF/XML. But that's their problem :-) Also section 4.1 prescribes that EARL 1.0 reports need to be valid RDF, which may need to be looked at more closely. It is probably a good idea to support additional serializations as long as there is a common base format (currently this is RDF/XML). Best, Shadi -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ | WAI International Program Office Activity Lead | W3C Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group Chair |
Received on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 08:59:48 UTC