Re: More Thoughts on Links and Operation Subclasses

On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
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>> On 2/3/14 3:19 PM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
>> I think the biggest problem is how this stuff is documented and the fact
>> that people won't read it:-)  It's not a contract. It's a hint. Clients have
>> to interpret the response in any case. Some will be more tolerant, some will
>> break when they don't get back what they expected. That's similar to how
>> people often run into troubles when parts of a website get redesigned and
>> "nothing works anymore" because it looks different or they have to take
>> different paths.
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> This is where TURTLE is your friend. The narrative is more readable in TURTLE that it will ever be in JSON-LD.
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> JSON-LD is for the coders that don't want to make a TURTLE parser etc.. But, to write good code you really have to understand what exactly you are doing.
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> I encourage you to discuss in TURTLE so that more folks get involved in these discussions. I make this comment because there was a nice series of points from 'John Yaya' that kinda got lost in the JSON-LD examples he made. More folks would zone in if those examples are the more readable TURTLE :-)

+1, JSON-LD makes it too easy to be caught up in syntax.
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Received on Monday, 3 February 2014 21:17:01 UTC