Quoting Melvin Carvalho (2021-05-19 13:14:37)
> On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 21:33, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
> wrote:
> > The Super Set should always be the point of focus if
> > interoperability is the goal. That's a classic route to more "AND"
> > and less "OR" .
>
> +100 to this
>
> It took me some time to fully understand the subject, predicate,
> object model of RDF, and it was made much easier for me when you first
> explained the Entity Attribute Value (EAV) model
>
> We've generally taken the semantic web approach to standards in this
> group, with some evangelism. That has had mixed success.
>
> We should be inclusive of the many thousands (millions?) of developers
> that enjoy working with JSON(-LD)
>
> And also introduce them to the benefits of a more structures EAV model
> ie making merges cheap, enabling federation, allowing anyone to say
> anything about anything (ie decentralized features), discovery, follow
> your nose, indexing, allowing multiple things to exist in a document.
>
> And we can also learn from the tooling and network around JSON, how it
> makes parsing easy and ubiquitous, fast startup time, easy to work
> with arrays, easy to work with numbers
>
> If you want to create an MVP or be first to market, which is a valid
> approach, you probably will want to go down the JSON path, IMHO
Related to the above, Atomic Data seems an interesting concrete approach
to use a subset of RDF optimized for lesser confusion for non-RDF
developers: https://docs.atomicdata.dev/motivation.html
- Jonas
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