JSON-LD website launch

Hi folks,

For those not familiar with JSON-LD:

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a lightweight
Linked Data format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy
for machines to parse and generate. It is based on the already
successful JSON format and provides a way to help JSON data interoperate
at Web-scale. If you are already familiar with JSON, writing JSON-LD is
very easy. There is a smooth migration path from the JSON you use today,
to the JSON-LD you will use in the future. These properties make JSON-LD
an ideal Linked Data interchange language for JavaScript environments,
Web services, and unstructured databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB.

We just launched the website today, it contains more explanation and the
spec for JSON-LD:

http://json-ld.org/

We've been designing and doing the preliminary work to transition all of
our web services over to JSON-LD over the past two weeks. This is
related to an open universal payment standard that we've been working on:

http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/09/12/payswarm-api/

There's still much to do, but after some long design sessions with our
internal team and Mark Birbeck, we've been able to get the spec to a
point that we think is implementable and ready for the public to start
looking at in more detail. Let us know what you think, and if you may
want to help by writing some parsers and/or tools for JSON-LD in the
coming months.

-- manu

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Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny)
President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: Making Payments Frictionless, Saving Journalism
http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/09/12/payswarm-api/

Received on Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:53:35 UTC