Re: JSON-LD is an official Web Standard

Congratulations and well done (again)! ;)

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Fabio Barone <holon.earth@gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations! Well done
>
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> 2014/1/16 Brent Shambaugh <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>
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>> Yes!!
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>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:
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>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Here's a great update on some work that originated in this group. For
>>> the Web Payments work, we needed a way of expressing products for sale,
>>> digital receipts, digital contracts, identities, and a variety of other
>>> things in a way that was easy for Web developers to integrate and use.
>>>
>>> The solution we created ended up being called JSON-LD, and it became an
>>> offical Web Standard today:
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3589
>>>
>>> JSON-LD is a lightweight Linked Data format. It is easy for humans to
>>> read and write. It is based on the already successful JSON format and
>>> provides a way to help JSON data interoperate at Web-scale. JSON-LD is
>>> an ideal data format for programming environments, REST Web services,
>>> and unstructured databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB. If you want to
>>> learn more about it, there is a good video introduction here:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioCbTo3C-4
>>>
>>> Here's how much work went into JSON-LD: 100 teleconferences, 281 issues
>>> logged, 2,000 source code commits, and 2,500 emails over the course of 4
>>> years.
>>>
>>> This is the third technology that this group has been heavily involved
>>> in that has made it to an official Web Standard (RDFa 1.1 and RDFa Lite
>>> 1.1 being the first two). Three down... many to go. :)
>>>
>>> -- manu
>>>
>>> --
>>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
>>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>>> blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
>>> http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
>>>
>>>
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