JSON-LD recommendations

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Continuing my comments
> http://www.openannotation.org/spec/future/publishing.html
> as of January 27.
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
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>
>
> 1. Names in JSON serialization specification
> This has probably been discussed before I joined the group. But why are the
> names "body", "target", ..., "scope" not exactly following the labels of OA
> properties (oa:hasBody, oa:hasTarget, etc) just like all other names in the
> JSON serialization spec?
>

+10

If your proposal is not followed, there arises yet another terminology
mapping requirement in going between application languages.

What we must recognize---and perhaps it is a reason not to make such a
strong endorsement of JSON-LD by the spec---is that it is a
serialization by design convenient for JavaScript.  By contrast, most
RDF processing libraries in server-side languages can deal with
RDF/XML in or out.

My colleague on the Filtered Push project, David Lowery points out
this discussion
http://blog.ldodds.com/2010/12/02/rdf-and-json-a-clash-of-model-and-syntax/
of some of the issues.  At least some are addressed by JSON-LD, but
some are not.  So I  think that in this section, content negotiation
should be more to the point, and JSON-LD a little less.


I would like to see the recommendations rephrased something like this:


Annotations targeted at consumption by browsers can benefit by being
serialized by JSON-LD, which enables the browser application to be
conveniently developed in JavaScript with tools and methods familiar
to web developers.  In this case, the JSON-LD Context presented below
is RECOMMENDED to ensure consistency between implementations, and can
be referenced as
http://www.w3.org/ns/openannotation/core/context-20130204.json. For
this and other popular graph serialization formats, especially
RDF/XML, Turtle, and N3, that are served by http protocols, it is
RECOMMENDED to support content negotiation and to use the Content Type
given by the specifications of the format.


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