- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:51:20 +0000
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- CC: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 24/02/11 03:24, Nathan wrote: > Hi All, > > To get some discussion going, here are my own personal views on JSON and > RDF. > > I see two distinct needs here: > > One is to create a JSON serialization of RDF, capable of serializing all > the RDF concepts (anything Turtle will be able to), an optimized machine > to machine RDF transportation format. Most languages support JSON > parsing now, and that parsing is very quick compared to XML and formats > which require a custom parser (like turtle). Personally I see this as an > easy hit, feel it would be well worth doing, and to be totally > > The second need is much more complex, to create a JSON format which > allows people to publish and work with linked/web data easily. > > The distinction between the two is that the first is RDF serialized in > JSON, the second is JSON which can be viewed as RDF when you put certain > goggles. > > I'm personally convinced that if we try to mix the two we'll be here for > years and tbh, we'll simply fail. So, my first request would for people > to either agree or disagree with what I've said above, put it to a vote > and move on with doing the two distinct things. +1 to it's two different things. Andy
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