- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:23:04 +0100
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>, public-lod@w3.org
On 10 Jul 2009, at 11:00, Toby Inkster wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:40 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: >> Personally I think that RDF/XML doesn't help, it's too hard to write >> by hand. > > MicroTurtle, the sloppy RDF format: > > <http://buzzword.org.uk/2009/microturtle/spec> That's very interesting. I like it, but I'm not sure that it's necessarily what I would ideally like if I were coming to RDF afresh. It looks like the perl of RDF syntaxes :) Which is good for some people, but not others. Something like NTriples + UTF-8 + @prefix could be an answer for people new to RDF. One of the problems is the various triple shortcut syntaxes we use. Either the stacked syntax of RDF/XML, or the punctuation of Turtle. For anyone who's about to say that Turtle = ntriples + UTF-8 + @prefix - it doesn't help. The vast Majority of examples you see online use at least ; and probably [] and , too, which makes it very hard to follow. At least in my experience of introducing developers to RDF. - Steve -- Steve Harris Garlik Limited, 2 Sheen Road, Richmond, TW9 1AE, UK +44(0)20 8973 2465 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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