Re: Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

On 9/3/15 1:03 PM, David Booth wrote:
> Side note: RDF/XML was the first RDF serialization standardized, over
> 15 years ago, at a time when XML was all the buzz. Since then other
> serializations have been standardized that are far more human friendly
> to read and write, and easier for programmers to use, such as Turtle
> and JSON-LD.
>
> However, even beyond ease of use, one of the biggest problems with
> RDF/XML that I and others have seen over the years is that it misleads
> people into thinking that RDF is a dialect of XML, and it is not.  I'm
> sure this misconception was reinforced by the unfortunate depiction of
> XML in the foundation of the (now infamous) semantic web layer cake of
> 2001, which in hindsight is just plain wrong:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/09/06-ecdl/slide17-0.html
> (Admittedly JSON-LD may run a similar risk, but I think that risk is
> mitigated now by the fact that RDF is already more established in its
> own right.)
>
> I encourage all RDF publishers to use one of the other standard RDF
> formats such as Turtle or JSON-LD.  All commonly used RDF tools now
> support Turtle, and many or most already support JSON-LD.
>
> RDF/XML is not officially deprecated, but I personally hope that in
> the next round of RDF updates, we will quietly thank RDF/XML for its
> faithful service and mark it as deprecated.
>
> David Booth
>
>
Amen!

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