Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps

Re:Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collabor... by j-pb on Monday February 05, 2018 @02:37PM (#16311369)

Funny thing is, we have had a easy to understand CRDT datastructure and ecosystem for years. The semantic web. If you ignore the closed world stuff and only use open world semantics RDF becomes a GSet representing a graph.

A pretty neat workable representation. Trivial to implement.

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Re:Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collabor... by kaoD on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:17PM (#16313148)

I don't see how. Care to elaborate what is conflict-free and replicated in the semantic web?

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Re:Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collabor... by skrebbel on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:38AM (#16314923)

Nothing is, he's just trolling.

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Re:Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collabor... by j-pb on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:32PM (#16317789)

I'm not actually. Open world semantics means that you can never assume that a fact that hasn't been explicitly given doesn't happen to be on some server that is just temporarily unreachable. If you combine this with a monotonic query language and inference engine, which never retracts facts, you get a GSet with pretty powerfull operations. You can even arbitrarily cache facts without worry of conflicts.

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