+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 <[email protected]> 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 >
