Steve Harris wrote:
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.
FWIW my experience with technically savvy but non-semweb people is that
Turtle is a not only a low barrier it is a selling feature in a way that
abbreviated n-triples isn't. I've people who are using RDF solely
because they find Turtle a more convenient, compact notation for writing
down their data than any of the (mostly XML based) alternatives they've
tried.
The fact that you can use a similar notation in queries has helped too.
Dave
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