From msporny at digitalbazaar.com  Sun May 30 14:22:34 2010
From: msporny at digitalbazaar.com (Manu Sporny)
Date: Sun May 30 14:22:39 2010
Subject: [uf-new] JSON-LD - Universal Linked Data markup for Web Services
Message-ID: <4C02D71A.1050609@digitalbazaar.com>

Just in case there are people in this community that haven't seen this yet:

> On May 29th 2010, Manu Sporny tweeted:
> Just published JSON-LD:
>    http://rdfa.digitalbazaar.com/specs/source/json-ld/
> Universal markup of #rdfa #microdata and #microformats via
> lightweight JSON. #html5 #json #lod

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Abstract

Developers that embed structured data in their Web pages can choose
among a number of languages such as RDFa, Microformats and Microdata.
Each of these structured data languages, while incompatible at the
syntax level, can be easily mapped to RDF. JSON has proven to be a
highly useful object serialization and messaging replacement for SOAP.
In an attempt to harmonize the representation of Link Data in JSON, this
specification outlines a common JSON representation format for Linked
Data that can be used to represent objects specified via RDFa,
Microformats and Microdata.
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There is currently some discussion going on in the RDFa Community on
this markup mechanism (start of thread):

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa/2010May/0018.html

A great amount of effort was made to ensure that the markup mechanism
was compatible with Microformats.

-- manu

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