Re: FHIR as JSON-LD? [was Re: Minutes of last week's (Dec 2) HL7 ITS RDF Subgroup / W3C HCLS COI call -- Review of FHIR ontology approaches (cont.)]

This should be possible, because one of the key design objectives for JSON-LD is to allow existing JSON to be interpreted as Linked Data with zero edits to the JSON document, most of the time (paraphrasing from [1]).

Anders Riutta

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#design-goals-and-rationale

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> Subject: Re: FHIR as JSON-LD? [was Re: Minutes of last week's (Dec 2) HL7 ITS  RDF Subgroup / W3C HCLS COI call --
> Review of FHIR ontology approaches (cont.)]
> 
> If the *only* change to the JSON syntax was the addition of a single
> @context at the root of each element (and/or bundle), that might be
> sellable as part of the official JSON syntax.  (Particularly if that could
> be established as a simple fixed value and perhaps even stand in place of
> our existing "type" element.)  However, if we need to do anything to the
> JSON that makes it less friendly than that, it would likely need to be a
> distinct syntax.
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