Fwd: EasierRDF

Dear community,

I came across the project https://github.com/w3c/EasierRDF. I think it is a
good idea to have a look at RDF and the challenges it has. I'm struggling
with the use, because the work that is necessary to make systems
interoperable by understanding ontologies, formatting the data, extending
ontologies, writing queries, etc, is huge! I am a big fan of graph
databases and the ease of using Neo4j, Cypher, plain json and writing
converters between readable json formats is so much faster and developer
friendly. Queries in Cypher are intuitively and can be understood on sight.
I am also looking at Solid and I find the approach of data pods extremely
interesting and relevant, but the structure is so overwhelming and
overcomplicated that I start losing faith in this. Since the project
EasierRDF is started, I guess others struggle with the same? Are there some
major advantages of using RDF and Sparql over Neo4j and Cypher? We could do
linked data with Json-ld and Neo4j?

Thanks

Kind regards,
Frederik

---------- Forwarded message ---------
Van: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
Date: do 10 feb. 2022 om 16:56
Subject: Re: EasierRDF
To: Frederik Byl <frederik.byl@gmail.com>


Hi Frederik,

You are asking an excellent question, and I think the community as a
whole would benefit from discussing it on a public list, both to get
more viewpoints and to expose your question to other existing RDF users.
  Would you be willing to post your question to the public
semantic-web@w3.org list?
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/

Thanks,
David Booth

On 2/10/22 10:43, Frederik Byl wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> I am sorry to contact you in this straightforward manner. I came across
> your project https://github.com/w3c/EasierRDF
> <https://github.com/w3c/EasierRDF>. I think it is a good idea to have a
> look at RDF and the challenges it has. I'm struggling with the use and
> the work that is necessary to make systems interoperable by
> understanding ontologies, formatting the data, extending ontologies etc,
> is huge! I am a big fan of graph databases and the ease of using Neo4j
> and plain json and writing converters between readable json formats is
> so much faster and developer friendly. I am also looking at Solid and I
> find the approach of data pods extremely interesting and relevant, but
> the structure is so overwhelming and overcomplicated that I start losing
> faith in this.Since you started the project Easier RDF, I guess you
> struggle with the same, or do you see some major advantages in using RDF?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kind regards,
> Frederik