- From: <Ora.Lassila@nokia.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:41:56 +0000
- To: <public-lod@w3.org>
existing thread, and also for probably saying things other folks have already brought up] I have worked on RDF and systems using RDF for over 15 years now (and on RDF's "non-Web" predecessors before that). The most important thing I have learned is that while it is possible to do Linked Data and Semantic Web stuff *without* RDF, whatever alternative technology you choose, you soon feel compelled to add features that make it look like RDF. I particularly see this whenever someone comes to me advocating the use of JSON. RDF is what it is for a reason, *not* because we arbitrarily threw something together. So it is not that RDF "looks bad" or whatever people might be saying. It is that other technologies and approaches "fall short" of what Linked Data and Semantic Web really need. Let's not please reinvent things or shove a round peg in a square hole just because someone prefers curly braces over angle brackets. Issues like that are not interesting (at all), and we have more important things to do. Regards, - Ora -- Dr. Ora Lassila ora.lassila@nokia.com http://www.lassila.org Principal Technologist, Nokia
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