Dear Martynas, I think that Jena is more focused on back-end process, may i'm wrong :/... Perhaps would be better to focus more on JSON-LD that is an improved JSON (+-) lol.
They already have some javascript implementations for that: For example: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/jsonld.js/ For me, the use of RDF and its derivatives on application side (Sites, exposing APIs ...) should stop now we have jsonld. Reasons: 1 ) Json is more friendly for web developers! 2 ) Many semantic web tools, like Jena, already supports it ;) 3) JSON is faster and uses fewer resources than its XML counterpart https://www.cs.montana.edu/izurieta/pubs/IzurietaCAINE2009.pdf 4) Very easily to boost your SEO. See integration for google https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data Finally, if they manage to integrate json/jsonld and openapi all together, RDF will be really dead for me. You can check more what is going on with jsonld here: https://github.com/json-ld Best Silvio On 2020/05/15 10:39:07, Martynas Jusevičius <marty...@atomgraph.com> wrote: > Hi, > > RDF JavaScript frameworks are still ~20 years behind Java. So this had > me thinking for a while -- instead of reinventing the wheel, would it > be possible to transpile Jena to TypeScript or JavaScript? > > ARQ would probably be my number #1 target, but RIOT would also be useful. > > From what I've found, J2CL seems to be the framework that should be > able to do it: > "Java to Closure JavaScript transpiler" > https://github.com/google/j2cl > > I haven't tried myself yet, but I know that Saxon-CE (which is now > deprecated in favor of the native Saxon-JS) was first ported using > GWT, the predecessor of J2CL. > http://www.saxonica.com/ce/index.xml > > Has anyone had similar ideas or done some experiments? Is this realistic at > all? > > Martynas >
