Re: Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

Bernadette,

     it is not just perception,  it is reality.

     People find JSON-LD easy to work with,  and often it is a simple
lossless model-driven transformation from an RDF graph to a JSON graph that
people can do what they want with.

     Ultimately RDF is a universal data model and it is the data model that
is important,  NOT the specific implementations.  For instance you can do a
model-driven transformation of data from RDF to JSON-LD and then any JSON
user can access it with few hangups even if they are unaware of JSON-LD.
Add some JSON-LD tooling and you've got JSON++.

      We can use a use relational-logical-graphical methods to process
handle data and we can accept and publish JSON with the greatest of ease.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com>
wrote:

> +1 David, well said.
>
> Amazing how much the mention of JSON (in the phase JSON-LD) puts people at
> ease vs. RDF <anything>.  JSON-LD as a Recommendation has helped lower the
> defenses of many who used to get their hackles up and say ‘RDF is too hard'.
>
> Perception counts for a lot, even for highly technical people including
> Web developers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernadette Hyland
> CEO, 3 Round Stones, Inc.
>
> http://3roundstones.com  || http://about.me/bernadettehyland
>
>
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:03 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
>
> Side note: RDF/XML was the first RDF serialization standardized, over 15
> years ago, at a time when XML was all the buzz. Since then other
> serializations have been standardized that are far more human friendly to
> read and write, and easier for programmers to use, such as Turtle and
> JSON-LD.
>
> However, even beyond ease of use, one of the biggest problems with RDF/XML
> that I and others have seen over the years is that it misleads people into
> thinking that RDF is a dialect of XML, and it is not.  I'm sure this
> misconception was reinforced by the unfortunate depiction of XML in the
> foundation of the (now infamous) semantic web layer cake of 2001, which in
> hindsight is just plain wrong:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/09/06-ecdl/slide17-0.html
> (Admittedly JSON-LD may run a similar risk, but I think that risk is
> mitigated now by the fact that RDF is already more established in its own
> right.)
>
> I encourage all RDF publishers to use one of the other standard RDF
> formats such as Turtle or JSON-LD.  All commonly used RDF tools now support
> Turtle, and many or most already support JSON-LD.
>
> RDF/XML is not officially deprecated, but I personally hope that in the
> next round of RDF updates, we will quietly thank RDF/XML for its faithful
> service and mark it as deprecated.
>
> David Booth
>
>
>


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