Re: JSON-LD is an official Web Standard

Yes!!


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> 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/
>
>