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vfaronov | 7 years ago

RDF was not designed for arbitrary graphs. It was specifically designed for resource descriptions on the Semantic Web.

> reliance on the web infrastructure (IRI, DNS, web servers, ...)

This is the whole point of RDF. It is what enables Linked Data.

> I read the history of JSON-LD by one of its main author [1], and it does not originated in the RDF community.

Not sure what you mean exactly, but here’s from http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins/:

> JSON-LD started around late 2008 as the work on RDFa 1.0 was wrapping up. We were under pressure [...] to come up with a good way of programming against RDFa data.

JSON-LD definitely was always an RDF serialization, created by people intimately familiar with RDF and the Semantic Web.

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titanix2|7 years ago

> RDF was not designed for arbitrary graphs.

Exactly. That's my exact point. So, now, my problem is other scholars asking "why don't you use our model X or Y based of RDF" when the only thing I care about is the graph part. And I don't use RDF because of the points I exposed earlier. I should I've put emphasis that I'm working in a given field (lexicography), and that the RDF issues I face may be irrelevant for some other use cases.

As for the JSON-LD origin I stand correct.