Social Web Working Group Charter "other data serializations" out of scope: What about RDF?

The [DRAFT] Social Web Working Group Charter states:

"A transfer syntax for social data such as activities (such as status
updates) should include at least the ability to describe the data using
URIs in an extensible manner, time-stamping, and should include a
serialization compatible with Javascript (JSON) and possibly JSON-LD.
Formats based on XML or other data serializations are out-of-scope."
http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter.html

For clarification: I suppose that this does not imply that it can not
become a requirement for the specifications that JSON-LD is used in way
which makes it an RDF-serialization of the data at the same time. Correct?

If the answer is yes, then such a requirement would be my first
suggestion for the WG. The practical effect of such a requirement likely
would be small: In practice it is difficult to accidentally create valid
JSON-LD documents which are not usable RDF-serializations at the same
time. But it is better to make requirements explicit.

(I would also like to see informal Turtle examples in the future
specification documents, not only JSON-LD ;-)

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Saturday, 7 June 2014 14:17:37 UTC