- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:50:38 -0400
- To: RDF Working Group <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
I really liked Nathan's proposal a few weeks ago: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2011Mar/0565.html Tom's serialization work is also excellent, and is a must read before diving any further into this e-mail: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/JSON-Serialization-Examples I'd like to see if we can come to some sort of consensus on a starting point based on Nathan's proposal. I'm going to remove things that raised issues w/ some people and see if we can all agree if the result could be the starting point for the JSON work. Note that this proposal is imperfect by design - it is only here to capture the things that the majority of the group seem to agree upon. It's merely meant to put a stake in the ground so that we may start building on top of it. If we can get agreement on these 5 principles, then we can add on features as the group discusses them: 1: Constrain JSON [1] to be an (optionally nested) sequence of one or more objects (where one, no enclosing [] is needed). 2: constrain object keys to be strings with no white space. 3: add recognition for a special "@id" property who's value is an IRI (sets the subject of the object when present). 4: add recognition for a special "@type" property who's value is a simple string. The value is looked up in the @context. 5: Support a "@context" property that allows for a set of mappings from JSON keys to IRIs. { "@context": { "Person": "http://xmlns.com/0.1/foaf/Person", "name": "http://xmlns.com/0.1/foaf/name", }, "@id": "http://jondoe.example.org/#me", "@type": "Person", "name": "Nathan Rixham" } That's it - please +1 below each number if you support the general direction of the feature. -1 if you don't, please explain if you don't. It's been around 2 weeks, so hopefully some of us have had time to let these ideas kick around in our heads for a while. I'll try to setup a Doodle poll to have a discussion about this proposal later on in the week as well as discuss some of the serialization work that Tom has done. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The PaySwarm Vocabulary http://digitalbazaar.com/2011/03/31/payswarm-vocab/
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