Re: Web Payments Schema & RDF

On 9/30/14 11:28 PM, Sam Mbale wrote:
> RDF is not popular. We should concentrate on JSON-LD
>
> Sam Mbale
>
> Developer/Director
> https://google.com/+SamMbale4
>

RDF and JSON-LD aren't peers. Holding such a view only confuses matters, 
eternally!

RDF is an abstract language. You can create RDF Document content using a 
variety of concrete notations e.g., JSON-LD, TURTLE, ASN.1, XML, etc..

If JSON-LD enables you to construct and publish structured data that's 
web-like in form, that's excellent. The issue has never been RDF vs 
JSON-LD (or any other notation). The fundamental issue is about 
structured data representation, endowed with human and machine 
comprehensible entity relations semantics, that isn't stove-piped in yet 
another platform or application specific data silo.

Data-de-silo-fication is the name of the game. That's what the World 
Wide Web has been demonstrating since inception.


[1] http://bit.ly/world-wide-web-25-years-later .

Kingsley
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Melvin Carvalho 
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've been trying for some time to get the web payments schema to
>     work with RDF tooling.
>
>     But most of the tools I try with say that the RDF is broken
>
>     e.g.
>
>     https://w3id.org/commerce#source
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>     http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browser/?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fw3id.org%2Fcommerce%23source
>
>     Gives: "ZERO triples? Chances are your RDF is b0rken!"
>
>     Same thing happens in URI burner.
>
>     Would there be any possibility allow RDF (for example) to be given
>     too as well has human readable, which I think would make the
>     schema more reuable with various tooling.
>
>


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