TM/JSON is a work in progress by Robert Cerny.
According to Robert:
The main idea is to have an object representation of a topic map in any programming language that supports JSON without writing or generating mapping code and still being able to access the information with little to no knowledge of Topic Maps.
TM/JSON first draft
Code written with no understanding of the inputs seems problematic to me. (The mother’s programming job in Snow Crash?)
TM/JSON does not appear to require ignorance of topic maps so perhaps programmers knowledgeable about topic maps will find it useful as well.
We all need to give it a close read and Robert the benefit of some feedback.
Thanks for spreading the news. Just to clarify: Understanding is a mysterious beast 🙂 Seriously, most developers already know a notation for subjects and statements: domain objects which have keys and values and collections of values are used to form links between objects. Actually most of the world’s programming is done with this model in mind. So it can’t be all bad. TM/JSON wants to make it easy to create an object-like representation of a topic map and mimics TM/XML in what it is doing. Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Comment by Robert Cerny — August 18, 2010 @ 12:58 am