Re: Representing RDF Literals/Resources as JSON Strings

Hi Tony,

For a JSON "port" of Turtle-ish syntax, you may be interested in one of 
the JSON formats that Masahide Kanzaki's Turtle parser parses into. See:

http://www.kanzaki.com/works/2006/misc/0308turtle.html


(For a more general overview (not totally up-to-date, now) of some JSON 
formats that are out there for RDF data, you could take a look at this 
survey that I drew up a few months ago: 
http://thefigtrees.net/lee/blog/2007/01/using_rdf_on_the_web_a_survey.html 
)

Lee

Tony Hammond wrote on 06/07/2007 08:14:28 AM:

> 
> Many thanks for this, Ian. Very interesting. Though ...
> 
> I guess what I was really after was something where the typing of the
> literal and/or resource would be implicit in the syntax (as in 
N3/Turtle)
> rather than explicitly broken out (as in XML), i.e. A concise
> "human-readable" (and -writable ;) syntax. For example, N3 uses '"' to
> delimit strings, '<', '>' to delimit URIs, etc. And with JSON we have 
the
> constraint that primitive (unstructured) values should be presented as
> strings (in double quotes).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tony
> 
> ps/
> Btw, where do all these Notes and WD's etc. come from? Hadn't seen this
> before but maybe I just missed it. I am all wired up to the W3C feed but
> somehow...
> 
> 
> On 7/6/07 10:47, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> > Tony,
> > 
> > the only example that comes to my mind is the W3C note
> > 
> > Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-json-res/

> > 
> > maybe it gives you some inspiration...
> > 
> > Ivan
> > 
> > Hammond, Tony wrote:
> >> Hi:
> >> 
> >> I am making use of JSON to map an RDF profile but am wondering how 
best to
> >> represent RDF literals and resources as JSON strings.
> >> 
> >> Leaving aside blank nodes and numeric/boolean literals, N3/Turtle 
makes a
> >> clear syntactic distinction between the following four kinds of 
values:
> >> 
> >>     * literal = quotedString | datatypeString
> >> 
> >>       1. quotedString = '"' string '"'
> >> 
> >>       2. datatypeString = quotedString '^^' resource
> >> 
> >>     * resource = uriref | qname
> >> 
> >>       3. uriref = '<' uri '>'
> >> 
> >>       4. qname = prefix ':' name
> >> 
> >> With JSON all (simple or primitive) values are (double) quoted 
strings. One
> >> possibile syntax might be the following:
> >> 
> >>       1. quotedString = '"' string '"'
> >> 
> >>       2. datatypeString = ??
> >> 
> >>       3. uriref = '"' '<' uri '>' '"'
> >> 
> >>       4. qname = '"' '<[' prefix ':' ']>' '"'
> >> 
> >> with qname here taking a cue from CURIE's.  (Alternatively one could 
treat
> >> qname the same as uriref and disambiguate depending on whether a 
prefix
> >> namespace was declared.)
> >> 
> >> So, #1 is a natural match, #3 is passable, #4 is heavier but still a
> >> possibility, and �2 ... well, I just don't know.
> >> 
> >> Was wondering if anybody else had done some work in this area 
andarrived at
> >> any conclusions.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> 
> >> Tony
> >> 
> >> 
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