Re: mapping from media type to datatype

Eric,

there's an URI service for media types, not sure if it helps:
http://mediatypes.appspot.com

Martynas

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:
> Is there a mapping from media type (e.g. application/json) to RDF
> literal datatype? In this use case, the data is specifically JSON
> embedded in a literal rather than an RDF graph representable as
> JSON-LD, e.g.
>   :id :prop "{ \"a\": [1, 2, 3]}"^^rdtype:json
> where rdtype is some spec which maps
>   application/json => "json"
>   text/csv => "csv"
>
> Maybe the right thing to do is say that everything in column 1 of
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#application
> is an rdtype local name. That would render ambiguous the backward
> mapping for media types in e.g. both an app/ and a text/ trees, but
> I don't know that there's much use in knowing whether anything in
> this list is app/ vs. text/:
>
>       1d-interleaved-parityfec
>       activemessage
>       dns
>       ecmascript
>       encaprtp
>       example
>       javascript
>       parityfec
>       raptorfec
>       rtf
>       rtploopback
>       rtx
>       ulpfec
>       vnd.curl
>       xml-external-parsed-entity
>
> If there is a usefull difference, we could have different prefixes for
> the different trees: application, audio, example, image, message,
> model, multipart, text, video, and prefix declarations can call them
> e.g. "rdapp", "rdaudio"...
>
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