- From: Alexandre Passant <alex@seevl.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:42:45 +0100
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: public-linked-json@w3.org
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 11:07 AM, Alexandre Passant wrote:
>> Regarding the "@source instead of @" and "@type instead of a" issues
>> on the current spec.
>> I'd favor a way to let this be defined in a context, in addition to
>> the default value.
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> {
>> "@context":
>> {
>> "#tokens":
>> {
>> "@" : "uri",
>> "@type" : "type"
>> }
>> }
>> }
>
> Why not just this?
>
> "@context":
> {
> "@subject": "iri",
> "@type": "a",
> "@datatype": "type",
> ...
> }
>
> Granted, this could be considered confusing as the keywords mean
> something very different when used in the context than elsewhere, but
> the same concern applies to their use in #tokens above.
Yes, I put the proposal into #tokens to differentiate between normal
keywords and reserve one but that's a matter of taste. Gregg's
proposal also makes sense here.
>
>> I will make the spec more flexible as allowing people to use the
>> naming they prefer - while keeping the RDF similar.
>
> If we do this, I think that we should declare some good defaults so that
> people don't have to declare a "@context" if they don't want to do so.
Sure
>
> I'm also concerned that this feature may not be as useful as we think it
> may be. That is, can somebody show us a use case that exists today that
> would benefit from this feature? I'm sure one exists, but I'd like to
> see how it could be applied to a major JSON Web services deployment
> (like Twitter, Google maps, Facebook, etc.)
See for instance he JSON from Flickr.
www.flickr.com/services/api/response.json.html
In the blogs example, "uri" would be the @subject in that case.
I think we can find similar use-cases in other deployments.
Alex.
>
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>
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