Re: Merge @type and @datatype

I am not worried by the implementation issues but... my mind may be too rdf infested:-) and this merge may be a bit confusing. I am a bit afraid that people will then use datatypes as types for subjects or other types for literals. Which may create a mess.

Ivan



On Oct 2, 2011, at 04:44 , Manu Sporny wrote:

> On 09/28/2011 08:25 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
>> Sorry for spamming the mailing list today, but as it was quite silent here
>> recently I would like to use the opportunity to discuss a number of things I
>> came up with while I reviewed the spec. So there may be more mails coming
>> :-)
> 
> Not at all, thank you for keeping the discussion going!
> 
>> This one is about merging @type and @datatype.
>> I understand that in a RDF world the distinction is necessary, but in
>> JSON-LD we do not need to distinguish the two keywords as they can't be
>> misinterpreted.
> 
> Interesting... I don't see any reason why we couldn't make this change. It does simplify the spec a bit... @type and @datatype do different things as far as the triples they generate are concerned... I don't know if this would confuse authors. What @type does is dependent on its context. I don't know if we really have any other attribute like it that is context-dependent (except for @context, of course). One could consider @language one of those features (if we support it in @context).
> 
>> So I would like to propose to merge @datatype and @type to @type (ISSUE-31).
>> I think this won't cause any problems in the already implemented algorithms
>> and just require a change from @datatype to @type. The reason behind this is
>> that both, @type and @datatype, specify the "data type" of a construct, the
>> only difference is that the one addresses subjects while the other addresses
>> objects.
> 
> That logic makes sense to me. +1
> 
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