Re: Why Framing and Normalization

On 01/09/11 06:02, Manu Sporny wrote:
> On 08/31/2011 06:23 PM, Danny Ayers wrote:
>> So essentially this is a transformation language & engine. Doesn't
>> the fact that this level of engineering is needed suggest that the
>> input format is too complex?
>
> You could look at the framing feature as a transformation language
> and an algorithm, yes.
>
> It's not the input format (JSON-LD) that is complex - it's graphs.
> Getting a regular structure out of a graph is a /very hard problem/.

This is a strange statement - the framing example shows that the result
is that to access the chapter title, you have to know,
library->book->chapter->title.   You can't just get the chapter title 
from a book without going through the whole library; books not in 
libraries don't exist.  Graphs work named/indexed access, not by rooted 
traversal.

That's the tradeoff being made - JSON-LD will give a way to publish
specific data items as JSON and have a well-defined associated RDF
triples.  Great - tick.  It's not a way to aggregate data from the web 
but that isn't the intention,

	Andy