Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Nathan
Damian Steer wrote: On 12 Dec 2009, at 21:42, Jeni Tennison wrote: Hi, As part of the linked data work the UK government is doing, we're looking at how to use the linked data that we have as the basis of APIs that are readily usable by developers who really don't want to learn about RDF

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Jeni Tennison
Frederick, Thanks, that looks interesting, and the idea of supporting similar mappings to XML and to CSV is very attractive. But I couldn't actually work out how I would use it in the kind of situation we find ourselves in. We have, for example, RDF like this:

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Jeni, Jeni Tennison wrote: As part of the linked data work the UK government is doing, we're looking at how to use the linked data that we have as the basis of APIs that are readily usable by developers who really don't want to learn about RDF or SPARQL. Wow! Talk about timing. We are

APIs and Lists

2009-12-13 Thread Jeni Tennison
Hi, Dave (Reynolds) raised the point that lists are an integral part of most APIs. This is another thing that we know we need to address in the UK linked government data project, but are unsure as yet how best to do so. This is a bit of a brain dump of my current thinking, which is

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Birbeck
Hi Jeni, On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Jeni Tennison j...@jenitennison.com wrote: Hi, As part of the linked data work the UK government is doing, we're looking at how to use the linked data that we have as the basis of APIs that are readily usable by developers who really don't want to

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Dan Brickley
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Jeni, [Rest of post snipped for now, I'll respond properly later. Seems like we are on sufficiently similar wavelengths that it is just a matter of working the details.] I don't know where the best place

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Toby Inkster
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 21:42 +, Jeni Tennison wrote: To put this in context, what I think we should aim for is a pure publishing format that is optimised for approachability for normal developers, *not* an interchange format. RDF/JSON [1] and the SPARQL results JSON format [2] aren't

Re: APIs and Lists

2009-12-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
The first question is: How do we define which resources are members of a list? Perhaps a dead simple way to do it is http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/ - you lose some of the semantic expressiveness, but you list resources.

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Ivan Herman
Dan is right on many front... (it usually true:-) - I personally do not see a problem this being done on ESW, this does not mean any type of formal 'Association' with W3C (giving you a writing right is a matter of setting up a user for you and sending, eg, me or dan a mail to add you to the