Re: JSON-LD Telecon Minutes for 2011-07-04

On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Ted Thibodeau Jr wrote:


On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:

There hasn't been much more discussion on this topic, so I propose that we update the requirements as follows:

• Linked Data is a set of documents, each containing a representation of a linked data graph.
• A linked data graph is a labeled directed graph, where nodes are subjects or objects, and edges are properties.
• A subject is any node in a linked data graph with at least one outgoing edge.
• A subject MAY be labeled with an IRI.

I think this "MAY" should be "SHOULD"... Doesn't absolutely
disallow literal (nor bnode) subjects, but discourages them.

I believe the primary reason for using MAY was to leave room for unlabeled nodes (BNodes in RDF). The concept of having unlabeled nodes in a graph is important, and using SHOULD weakens this.

In common JSON usage, consider the following:

{
"@subject": "http://greggkellogg.net/foaf#me",
"@type": "Person"
"home-address": {
"@type": "Address",
"city": "San Rafael",
"region": "California"
}
}

Having to specify an IRI for the "home-address" item runs against much common usage. Why should this usage be discouraged?

Gregg

Otherwise, looks good!

Regards,

Ted


• A property is an edge of the linked data graph.
• A property SHOULD be labeled with an IRI.
• An object is a node in a linked data graph with at least one incoming edge.
• An object MAY be labeled with an IRI.
• An IRI that is a label in a linked data graph SHOULD be dereferencable to a Linked Data document describing the labeled subject, object or property.
• A literal is an object with a label that is not an IRI

If I don't hear any negative response, I'll assume that we have consensus to update the Linked Data section [1] of the requirements accordingly.

Gregg

[1] http://json-ld.org/requirements/latest/#linked-data

On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:

On 07/05/2011 07:24 PM, Bradley Allen wrote:
How about: "A literal is an object with a label that is not an IRI" ?

Works for me. Also note that at one point, we were thinking of
supporting graph literals in JSON-LD. There is nothing preventing us
from still doing this, but let's put that conversation off to another time.

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