[uf-dev] JSON representation of semantic objects

[ryan]

We already have JSON for hreview in the test suite. I'd be willing to  
create JSON for hCard and hCalendar, too. In fact, I've done it  
before several times (not publicly available), so its just a matter  
of writing it all down.

-ryan

On Jan 3, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:

> We've been struggling with writing user action scripts for Operator  
> for
> hAudio. The problem comes in when one has to operate on semantic  
> objects.
>
> Currently, there are two different ways of representing semantic  
> data in
> Operator, one for eRDF/RDFa and another for Microformats. This is  
> quite
> a headache for anybody trying to develop an action script that  
> operates
> on 'vcards', 'vevents' or 'haudio'.
>
> Ideally, the action script shouldn't care where the semantic object  
> came
> from (eRDF/RDFa/uF/whatever).
>
> The problem gets more complicated when applications want to share the
> semantic objects that they've discovered between each other. In short,
> we don't have a serialization format that I know of... and it would be
> nice if we gave developers a framework to follow.
>
> We've been attempting to solve this problem using JSON  
> serialization of
> Microformats using hAudio as a testbed, it seems to be a viable  
> candidate:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/haudio-serialization
>
> We would like to see this implemented in Operator as it will make it
> easier to develop user scripts. It will also help Operator export
> semantic objects that it detects on pages to other Firefox plug-ins  
> that
> consume semantic objects.
>
> So what do people think? There is interest from the W3C/RDFa groups on
> solving this problem, would this community be interested in  
> contributing
> to the discussion? Is it time for a serialization format for semantic
> objects?
>
> -- manu
>
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