Re: Blank nodes as predicates [was Re: Input needed from RDF group on JSON-LD skolemization] from Dave Longley on 2013-07-12 (public-linked-json@w3.org from July 2013)

From: Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:38:51 -0400
To: Linked JSON <public-linked-json@w3.org>
CC: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
Message-ID: <51E014FB.80705@digitalbazaar.com>

On 07/12/2013 06:18 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
> The goal of JSON-LD is to eliminate that out-of-band but we can't do so
> overnight. Blank node properties provide us an elegant vehicle to gradually
> migrate those existing infrastructures to fully linked data. If we make such
> migrations too difficult, people just won't migrate. So you can either use
> the sledgehammer to enforce theoretical pureness risking that people won't
> use it or use a more pragmatic approach that simplifies the adoption of such
> a technology in practice.

+1

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Dave Longley
CTO
Digital Bazaar, Inc.

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