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
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