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?]

Unless you drop the object-oriented domain model completely, and apply
the constraints directly on the RDF graph.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2015 12:18 PM, "Stian Soiland-Reyes"
> <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> One problem is that what many web developer likes is JSON with a
>> structure. We already had RDF/JSON which was a flat and verbose
>> "subject":  { "uri": "http://example.com/" }  style serialization that
>> nobody liked.
>>
>> What made JSON-LD popular is the @context - being able to simplify
>> namespaces and structures, but also that applications can give out a
>> consistent JSON structure that just happens to also be LD and have
>> clearly defined semantics of the links and properties.
>>
>>
>> This is easy enough if your data is stored in a relational or no-sql
>> database, and you generate the JSON with a template.
>>
>> However, if your data is stored natively in a triple/quad store, then
>> to produce a consistent JSON structure you would currently have to use
>> hard-coded templates and custom code (which sounds silly, converting
>> from RDF to RDF manually),  or use JSON-LD Framing, which has not been
>> fully standardized, and has many missing features and bugs.   I think
>> we need to work more on the Framing, so that RDF can be more than just
>> a publication format.
>
> I believe any model-sensitive serialization will always be more appealing to
> consumers, usually at the cost of having programmer brains in the loop. You
> effectively have to parse your domain model out of the graph and take
> advantage of structural constraints to sensibly normalize program
> interfaces. I'm interested in existing template/grammar-based tools for
> this. Pointers?
>
>> JSON-LD Framing was also meant as a way for applications to receive
>> arbitrary JSON-LD content, and then frame it and apply a new @context
>> to shape/select the particular bits of the data the application is
>> interested in.
>>
>> (Mandatory XSLT warning applies)
>>
>>
>> On 3 September 2015 at 22:34, Paul Houle <ontology2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Bernadette,
>> >
>> >      it is not just perception,  it is reality.
>> >
>> >      People find JSON-LD easy to work with,  and often it is a simple
>> > lossless model-driven transformation from an RDF graph to a JSON graph
>> > that
>> > people can do what they want with.
>> >
>> >      Ultimately RDF is a universal data model and it is the data model
>> > that
>> > is important,  NOT the specific implementations.  For instance you can
>> > do a
>> > model-driven transformation of data from RDF to JSON-LD and then any
>> > JSON
>> > user can access it with few hangups even if they are unaware of JSON-LD.
>> > Add some JSON-LD tooling and you've got JSON++.
>> >
>> >       We can use a use relational-logical-graphical methods to process
>> > handle data and we can accept and publish JSON with the greatest of
>> > ease.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Bernadette Hyland
>> > <bhyland@3roundstones.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> +1 David, well said.
>> >>
>> >> Amazing how much the mention of JSON (in the phase JSON-LD) puts people
>> >> at
>> >> ease vs. RDF <anything>.  JSON-LD as a Recommendation has helped lower
>> >> the
>> >> defenses of many who used to get their hackles up and say ‘RDF is too
>> >> hard'.
>> >>
>> >> Perception counts for a lot, even for highly technical people including
>> >> Web developers.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Bernadette Hyland
>> >> CEO, 3 Round Stones, Inc.
>> >>
>> >> http://3roundstones.com  || http://about.me/bernadettehyland
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:03 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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