Re: files or database for solid pods [Was: Towards Solid Lite]

On 10/31/23 11:21 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, 03:03 Kurt Cagle, <kurt.cagle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Please do not strip the RDF from solid or solid lite. It is
>     honestly the only real good feature that Solid has.
>
>
> Arguable, RDF is quite nuanced and constrained, compared to something 
> broader stroke like N3, the ontologies are all over the place, 
> misused, incomplete (even base ones like rdfs and owl), others miss 
> the mark (RIF), mismodelled (verifiable claims, many others), archaic 
> (most), or just aren't GETable (like the most widely deployed - 
> schema.org <http://schema.org>).
>
> It evolved with baggage and constraints, has fundamental issues 
> (hr-14, no literal subjects, bnode mess, skolemization, no graph 
> literals). Most uses require conneg, the list goes on. Even json-ld is 
> quite the behemoth compared to how it could have been.
>
> I know there's a lot vested in it, but it's far from what it could be.
>

Long story short.

JSON is fine, and as just another notation and serialization combo, it 
isn't incompatible with RDF's abstract nature.

{ "attribute":  "value"}  simply expresses the fact that something 
exists that has an attribute and an associated value. It's all good and 
expressible using various RDF notations :)

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