JSON-LD is an official Web Standard

Hey all,

Here's a great update on some work that originated in this group. For
the Web Payments work, we needed a way of expressing products for sale,
digital receipts, digital contracts, identities, and a variety of other
things in a way that was easy for Web developers to integrate and use.

The solution we created ended up being called JSON-LD, and it became an
offical Web Standard today:

http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3589

JSON-LD is a lightweight Linked Data format. It is easy for humans to
read and write. It is based on the already successful JSON format and
provides a way to help JSON data interoperate at Web-scale. JSON-LD is
an ideal data format for programming environments, REST Web services,
and unstructured databases such as CouchDB and MongoDB. If you want to
learn more about it, there is a good video introduction here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioCbTo3C-4

Here's how much work went into JSON-LD: 100 teleconferences, 281 issues
logged, 2,000 source code commits, and 2,500 emails over the course of 4
years.

This is the third technology that this group has been heavily involved
in that has made it to an official Web Standard (RDFa 1.1 and RDFa Lite
1.1 being the first two). Three down... many to go. :)

-- manu

-- 
Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop
http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/

Received on Thursday, 16 January 2014 17:09:16 UTC