JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web

Manu Sporny's January 2014 blog post, written days after JSON-LD became a W3C Recommendation, saying that better Web APIs, not the Semantic Web, motivated JSON-LD, and that keeping RDF out of sight was what made it usable.

Read the article ↗ manu.sporny.org

Also at Internet Archive · news.ycombinator.com · devx.com

Part of threads Can ordinary developers use it? critiques; Rigour against developer taste critiques

about

• JSON-LD standard 2014 [src]

critiques

• RDF standard 1999 [src]
  Argues that RDF's data model fails developers on lists and blank nodes, and that JSON-LD succeeded by keeping RDF out of sight.

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• Manu Sporny person [src]