Re: JSON-LD is an official Web Standard

Congratulations! Well done


2014/1/16 Brent Shambaugh <brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>

> Yes!!
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> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:
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>> Hey all,
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>> 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.
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>> The solution we created ended up being called JSON-LD, and it became an
>> offical Web Standard today:
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>> http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3589
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>> 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:
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioCbTo3C-4
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>> 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.
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>> 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/
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