Re: iCalendar and vCard in JSON(-LD?)

On 2/13/13 7:46 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
> There is a vCard in RDF document:
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> http://www.w3.org/Submission/vcard-rdf/
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> and, afaik, Renato wants to referesh it, too.
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> JSON-LD is an RDF serialization. Ie, putting the RDF representation into JSON-LD does not need a new standard...
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> There has been discussion on iCalendar in RDF, too:
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> http://www.w3.org/wiki/RdfCalendarDocumentation
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> although, somehow, the community never came around to have something as clearly described as vCard in RDF. But the same thing hold: any RDF vocabulary can be described in JSON-LD, so there is no need for a new standard in my view...
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> Ivan

+1

In fact, I recently published a SPARQL data integration demo based on 
RDF based vocabularies for vCard and FOAF [1].

Links:

1. http://bit.ly/UydU9t -- simple SPARQL based data integration across 
heterogeneous data sources.


Kingsley
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> On Feb 13, 2013, at 06:42 , Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> You might be interested in the following discussion over at IETF's
>> apps-discuss:
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>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg08873.html
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>> The are about to form a WG to standardize iCalendar and vCard in JSON. I
>> think that would be another nice use case for JSON-LD.
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