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Re:Why is RDF so old, complicated, unpopular and still not d... by ekidd on Thursday February 03, 2011 @10:57AM (#2175165)
Ah, but RDF in and of itself isn't any more interoperable than XML or JSON.

True, but XML and JSON are both fantastically useful technologies despite that lack of interoperability.

So when is RDF actually useful? If I have hierarchical data structures, I strongly prefer JSON. If I have structured documents, I like XML. But if I have a graph, something like RDF n-triples or Turtle is a reasonable way to serialize it.

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Re:Why is RDF so old, complicated, unpopular and still not d... by thomas11 on Thursday February 03, 2011 @11:13AM (#2175243)
Let's also not forget the Linked Data idea. You find a node in an RDF graph that you're interested in? Follow the URI that is its id and get more RDF describing the node, and so on. A web of data. We're not there yet, but the number of RDF-ized resources is growing.
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