- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 10:04:31 -0400
- To: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On 05/04/2012 01:49 AM, Dan Brickley 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? Yes, in the future it should use XML+RDFa. > How about all those Adobe-XMP embeds in jpegs, pdfs etc? What does it > mean to deprecate rdf-xml there? They continue to be valid documents. As for future development, Adobe should migrate to something more modern. > Ntriples --- am i the only one who regularly filters rdf ntriples > dumps by grepping ? You can still do this with TURTLE Lite. > N3 - we can't deprecate something we never recommended Yes, but you can strongly suggest that people not to use it for anything. The RDF community could re-enforce that message. > +1 for making the landscape less daunting, but I look more to primer > + tools for that Primers are inadequate when it comes to making changes like this. Tools are good, but we need to send a clear message to the tools developers that they should put a big red DEPRECATED message beside formats that are not serving to make this ecosystem easier to understand and use. The biggest tool that we have to do this is the RDF and Linked Data community. -- 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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