Re: Friendly JSON serialization (Was: Annotation Serializations)

On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:40 AM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:
> JSON-LD was developed to address exactly these issues.  Web developers get a JSON serialization that works with their existing tools and techniques, whereas RDF folks get the ability to map directly to the RDF data model.  Everyone wins.

I’m not trying to denigrate JSON-LD or RDF ; but this simply isn’t good enough. For OpenAnnotation to happen the annotation data model needs to be actually useful from a tool perspective. Simply saying it’s JSON and RDF just means it’ll parse with existing tools.

//Ed

Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 18:04:52 UTC