- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 08:57:57 +0100
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 04/05/12 06:49, Dan Brickley wrote: > On 4 May 2012, at 06:42, Manu Sporny<msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > >> Please send a strong signal out to RDF authors deprecating the following >> "native" RDF serializations: >> >> * RDF/XML >> * N-Triples >> * N3 >> * TRiG >> * N-Quads >> * anything else that isn't TURTLE :) > > What should rdf-in-svg use? Rdfa? > > How about all those Adobe-XMP embeds in jpegs, pdfs etc? What does it mean to deprecate rdf-xml there? > > Ntriples --- am i the only one who regularly filters rdf ntriples dumps by grepping ? No, you are not. I've found it a good way to clean the data up by running Perl on N-triples and also extracting a certain part of a large dump. > N3 - we can't deprecate something we never recommended > > +1 for making the landscape less daunting, but I look more to primer + tools for that > > Cheers, > > Dan > >> >> That is, something that we can point people to and say: W3C says not to >> use that, don't use it for any future work, put a bullet in the >> serialization. >> >> The only officially supported RDF serializations should be: >> >> * TURTLE >> * TURTLE Lite >> >> TURTLE Lite would effectively be a subset of TURTLE - N-Quads, or >> something that would be N-Quads-like (allowing for either "s p o" or "s >> p o c" statements). >> >> Note that I left RDFa and JSON-LD out of this as I don't view them as >> "native" RDF serializations. RDFa can express RDF in other Host >> Languages, but can be transformed to other things like JSON-LD without >> passing through RDF. JSON-LD just happens to have a way to convert it to >> RDF and back loss-lessly, but that's a happy side effect of the >> serialization. >> >> The goal would be to simplify the dizzying array of options authors have >> in front of them right now and send a clear message about what they >> should be using and not using. >> >> -- manu >> >> -- >> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) >> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. >> blog: PaySwarm Website for Developers Launched >> http://digitalbazaar.com/2012/02/22/new-payswarm-alpha/ >> >
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