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?]

Hi John,

I can appreciate the value of RDF/XML for certain processing tasks, and 
I'm okay with keeping RDF/XML alive as a *processing* format.  My 
suggestion to deprecate RDF/XML was intended to apply to its use as a 
*publishing* format.

Thanks,
David Booth

On 09/03/2015 03:52 PM, John Walker wrote:
> Hi Martynas,
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> Indeed abandoning XML based serialisations would be foolish IMHO.
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> Both RDF/XML and TriX can be extremely useful in certain circumstances.
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> John
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> On 3 Sep 2015, at 19:53, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org> wrote:
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>> With due respect, I think it would be foolish to burn the bridges to
>> XML. The XML standards and infrastructure are very well developed,
>> much more so than JSON-LD's. We use XSLT extensively on RDF/XML.
>>
>> Martynas
>> graphityhq.com
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>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:03 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> 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
>>>
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