Re: A Quick Note on WebID history - Re: All the Agents Challenge (ATAC) at ISWC 2021

Hi Rixham,

On 7/25/21 10:50 AM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> JSON w/ URIs has seemed obvious for a decade or more.


Yes.


>
> In a sense it's sad that this field has been encumbered with rdf and
> it's legacy baggage harking right back to xml for so long, because if
> it wasn't, we'd arguably be a decade further along and just have (a
> standardized) JSON w/ URIs for 95%+ of common web / web data needs.


"RDF and its legacy baggage" is the product of misguided politics.

RDF, as you know, is neither serialization- nor storage format-specific. 

Misguided, yes, due the enormous toll its misrepresentation (and
resulting misunderstanding) has taken on the world [1].


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[1]
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