Re: Potential Formal Object from DERI over JSON-LD

Hi Peter,

If it can be sent over HTTP, and can express hyperlinks in a standard way, and can express arbitrary attribute-value pairs in a standard way, then it can do Linked Data.

Best,
Richard


On 22 Oct 2012, at 12:03, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> So I could have reverse Polish notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation linked data? Or object-oriented http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_database linked data? Or fuzzy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic linked data?  Or Montague http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_grammar linked data?  These are all standard in some sense.
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> There has to be some notion that everyone is serving up stuff that others can read.  Otherwise linked data is nothing more than a slogan.  But where is the boundary?  It seems to me that the boundary is triples, i.e., RDF.  What linked data adds is nothing more than pragmatics.  (Not that pragmatics isn't important.)
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> peter
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> On 10/22/2012 06:02 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
>> Pat,
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>> On 22 Oct 2012, at 04:59, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>> I would be very interested to discover what y'all consider the be the definition of Linked Data. Can you provide a pointer to where this can be found? Thanks in advance.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
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>> Trying to nail it down much tighter than that is counter-productive. I learned this the hard way a couple of years ago, when foolishly trying to stop people who were “doing Linked Data with Atom” from using the LD term.
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>> One can obviously do Linked Data with RDF, and that's by far the most popular approach. RDF is well-suited to that task, and it's the community where the LD term first emerged. W3C's LDP-WG is currently writing a specification that has more details for that.
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>> JSON-LD is an attempt at creating a format that allows doing Linked Data with JSON. That's great. However, there's a thin line between saying “we enable LD with JSON” and “JSON-LD is how you do LD”. The JSON-LD spec really ought to say only the first thing, but slips into implying the second too often.
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>> Attempting to enforce a particular implementation technology for Linked Data, be it RDF or JSON or Atom or Microdata or whatever, doesn't work. This is what Kingsley keeps repeating on a daily basis, and he's right.
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>> The fact that a JSON-LD document also can be parsed to an RDF graph is mostly orthogonal to this.
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>> Best,
>> Richard
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