Re: POI / RDF WG liaison - JSON task force

Thanks, Dan.  We look forward to hearing thoughts from the POI WG.

Regards,
Dave




On Mar 29, 2011, at 04:50, Dan Brickley wrote:

> Hello Points of Interest (POI) WG,
> 
> (Cc:'ing RDF WG co-chairs),
> 
> As just mentioned, W3C has just launched a group to make some modest improvements to the RDF (Resource Description Framework) specs.
> 
> Amongst these: a spec for RDF in JSON. The RDF WG is currently exchanging a lot of mail figuring out what exactly it wants to do in this area. 
> 
> Roughly, this will standardise a way of having JSON documents that can be interpreted as encoding RDF triples, and hence use (or map to) RDF vocabularies, datasets, ... and bridge to other RDF specs and tools such as SPARQL for querying, RDFa for exposing the same data within HTML pages.
> 
> I suggest the POI WG could be a good potential customer for the new RDF work. Ideally this would be a no-strings-attached relationship between the groups (ie. not a strict dependency) in which POI WGs thoughts about JSON format requirements/constraints are communicated to RDF WG; and RDF WG's draft designs for a JSON format are offered to POI WG for alpha-testing. I'd be happy to play such a liason role.
> 
> * Blog post on RDF JSON work: http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/12/new_rdf_working_group_rdfjson.html
> * RDF JSON Task Force wiki: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/TF-JSON
> * RDF WG wiki homepage: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/Main_Page
> * POI WG: http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/
> * POI Wiki: http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/wiki/Main_Page 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Dan