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January 28, 2014

JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web

Filed under: JSON,Semantic Web — Patrick Durusau @ 9:56 pm

JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web by Manu Sporny.

From the post:

JSON-LD became an official Web Standard last week. This is after exactly 100 teleconferences typically lasting an hour and a half, fully transparent with text minutes and recorded audio for every call. There were 218+ issues addressed, 2,000+ source code commits, and 3,102+ emails that went through the JSON-LD Community Group. The journey was a fairly smooth one with only a few jarring bumps along the road. The specification is already deployed in production by companies like Google, the BBC, HealthData.gov, Yandex, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. There is a quickly growing list of other companies that are incorporating JSON-LD. We’re off to a good start.

In the previous blog post, I detailed the key people that brought JSON-LD to where it is today and gave a rough timeline of the creation of JSON-LD. In this post I’m going to outline the key decisions we made that made JSON-LD stand out from the rest of the technologies in this space.

I’ve heard many people say that JSON-LD is primarily about the Semantic Web, but I disagree, it’s not about that at all. JSON-LD was created for Web Developers that are working with data that is important to other people and must interoperate across the Web. The Semantic Web was near the bottom of my list of “things to care about” when working on JSON-LD, and anyone that tells you otherwise is wrong. :P

TL;DR: The desire for better Web APIs is what motivated the creation of JSON-LD, not the Semantic Web. If you want to make the Semantic Web a reality, stop making the case for it and spend your time doing something more useful, like actually making machines smarter or helping people publish data in a way that’s useful to them.

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Something to get your blood pumping early in the week.

Although, I don’t think it is healthy for Manu to hold back so much. 😉

Read the comments to the post as well.

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