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.

JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web

Manu Sporny über seine Aversion gegen das Semantic Web und wie (bzw. warum) er JSON-LD ausgerechnet in diesem Umfeld entwickelt hat.

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<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://json-ld.org/contexts/person.jsonld",
  "@id": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Lennon",
  "name": "John Lennon",
  "born": "1940-10-09",
  "spouse": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cynthia_Lennon"
}
</script>

Embedded JSON? Wirklich? Und warum? Weil’s geht?

Neben Microformats, Microdata, RDFa, eRDF, OpenGraph Protocol und Twitter Cards jetzt also auch noch JSON? Super Idee!

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