relationship between JSON-LD and RDF

• From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:12:51 -0700
• To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <51BE8CC3.2040107@gmail.com>

I suppose that given the recent discussion on JSON-LD I should not have been 
surprised to see that JSON-LD is not completely defined in terms of the RDF.

However, I must admit that I was surprised to see how much this is true.

As far as I can see, no part of the definition of JSON-LD is defined in terms 
of any part of RDF.  In particular, as far as I can see, Appendix A of 
"JSON-LD 1.0: A JSON-based Serialization for Linked Data", W3C Editor's Draft 
16 June 2013, has definitions of just about every aspect of RDF graphs without 
once referring to any RDF document.  Some of these definitions are extensions 
of the ones in the RDF documents and some are different.

Given this fundamental disconnect between JSON-LD and RDF, why should JSON-LD 
become a recommendation of the W3C RDF working group?


peter

Received on Monday, 17 June 2013 04:13:21 UTC