Re: Popularity of Property Graphs

You are correct JSON-LD does have datatype support.
I guess I was thinking of JSON which has only string and number
All the best, Ashok

On 1/7/2014 5:56 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:
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> Ashok,
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> On 01/07/2014 05:24 PM, Ashok Malhotra wrote:
>> Hi Patrick: I agree that we are staring to see more and more data
>> whose structure fits Property Graphs.
>>
>> I also agree that the models used by vendors are often
>> idiosyncratically different. So, yes, standardization of strings to
>> UTF-8  among other things would be very useful.
>>
>> But if we add support for datatypes we may leave JSON-LD behind
>> and there may be some objection to this.
> ???
>
> I'm not sure why adding property types would leave JSON-LD "behind?"
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/ reports at 6.3 that JSON-LD has
> non-normative support for datatypes and uses an XML Schema Part 2
> datatype as an example.
>
> Yes?
>
> Hope you are having a great day!
>
> Patrick
>
>> All the best, Ashok
>>
>> On 1/7/2014 4:30 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote: Greetings!
>>
>> There seems little doubt that property graphs are gaining ground
>> but I am less certain that the interchange of property graphs is
>> quite as well settled.
>>
>> For example, one of the non-participants thus far in the
>> propertygraphs discussion supports label and property name
>> characters outside the ASCII character set if and only if each
>> character is preceded by a back tick. Creating the first family of
>> "back tick" languages I suppose.
>>
>> Could that be transformed? Perhaps. I don't know how you would
>> apply the various Unicode algorithms since those are dependent upon
>> order i the original string. (Thinking of zero-spacing
>> characters.)
>>
>> Declarations about serializations that mandates the use of UTF-8
>> would be a step in the right direction. Possibly enumerate the
>> other aspects of a property graph in the abstract that may or may
>> not be supported.
>>
>> Allow multiple properties on nodes? Edges? Multiple nodes to one
>> edge? etc.
>>
>> Not mandating any serialization but giving serializations an
>> outline of what they may or may not choose to support.
>>
>> I can't imagine serious players using labels and property names
>> that don't support Unicode. (Remember name characters and start
>> name characters? Why repeat a mistake?)
>>
>> Hope everyone is having a great week!
>>
>> Patrick
>>
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