Re: ODRL Version 2.1 Final Draft Specifications – Last Call for Comments (due 16 FEB) [via ODRL Community Group]

On 1/19/15 3:32 AM, W3C Community Development Team wrote:
> The W3C ODRL Community Group seeks feedback from the community on the Version
> 2.1 Final Draft specifications of the ODRL Policy Language:

>   ODRL Version 2.1 JSON Encoding

Short form:
Is JSON-LD also supported? (It's not mentioned on that page ODRL 2.1 
JSON Encoding page.)

Background:
Google and other search engines read JSON-LD, and it's listed at 
schema.org alongside Microdata and RDF as a tagging system for the 
general web. When I looked at the example for tagging a 'Book' at 
schema.org, JSON-LD seemed to me to have several advantages over 
Microdata and RDFa. Plus, the Credentials Community group and the Web 
Payments Community group are basing at least some of their work on 
JSON-LD.

Google says here:
https://developers.google.com/webmasters/structured-data/schema-org

"JSON-LD is the newest and simplest markup format: it lets you embed a 
block of JSON data inside a script tag anywhere in the HTML. Since the 
data does not have to be interleaved with the user-visible text, it's 
much easier to express nested data items [snip]...Google is in the 
process of adding JSON-LD support to more markup-powered features. "

Specifically in the ODRL context, my (non-expert) belief is that 
JSON-LD is merely an extension of JSON, and so in theory one might be 
able to use the ODRL JSON Encoding directly with JSON-LD. Is this true?

If so, it might be nice to make a mention of JSON-LD on the ODRL JSON 
page, or even give an example,.

If not -- and some different ODRL Encoding needs to be done to get 
ODRL to work with JSON-LD -- is there something in the works for this?




Steven Rowat

Received on Monday, 19 January 2015 16:52:27 UTC