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I'm super excited about RDF as well. It's going to be the next big thing as we finally start connecting our machines and data sources together in semantically m
by kstenerud 6y ago
I'm super excited about RDF as well. It's going to be the next big thing as we finally start connecting our machines and data sources together in semantically meaningful ways. I added relationships to CE because of this: https://concise-encoding.org/#relationships https://concise-encoding.org/#relationships
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{
// Marked base resource identifiers used for concatenation.
"resources" = [
&people:@"https://springfield.gov/people#"
&mp:@"https://mypredicates.org/"
&mo:@"https://myobjects.org/"
]
// Map-encoded relationships (the map is the subject)
$people:"homer_simpson" = {
/* $mp refers to @"https://mypredicates.org/""
* $mp:"wife" concatenates to @"https://mypredicates.org/wife"
*/
$mp:"wife" = $people:"marge_simpson"
// Multiple relationship objects
$mp:"regrets" = [
$firing
$forgotten_birthday
]
}
"relationship statements" = [
&marge_birthday:($people:"marge_simpson" $mp:"birthday" 1956-10-01)
&forgotten_birthday:($people:"homer_simpson" $mp:"forgot" $marge_birthday)
&firing:($people:"montgomery_burns" $mp:"fired" $people:"homer_simpson")
// Multiple relationship subjects
([$firing $forgotten_birthday] $mp:"contribute" $mo:"marital_strife")
]
}
RDF is gonna be so awesome when it finally hits the mainstream!
- bobthechef 6y agoDid you forget the /s? This sounds like you just read the first chapter of a book on the semantic web (SW) from the 90s and how great ontologies are and how they'll CHANGE EVERYTHING. The SW folks have been hyping this stuff for years. It sounds great until you begin to see the practical realities around it and it starts to look a little less, shall we say, "magical" and more like a huge pain in the ass.
- kstenerud 6y agoWow... haven't seen such a mean spirited and openly hostile reply in some time. You don't seem to engage much, so please take some time to familiarize yourself with the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yread 6y agoFWIW I didn't read it as mean and hostile. It's just the reality - semantic web is here for 20+ years with very little penetrating mainstream. And huge amounts of efforts spent on the technology, filling the databases and creating tooling. What do you think is needed so that people actually use it and it solves some problems for them?
- sloaken 6y agoI agree with you. Not that I have looked recently, what I see missing is a 'northwid' or 'contoso' database. As well as some MOOC with a gentle ramping up of skills. If you know of a good MOOC on RDF I would love to know about it.
- kstenerud 6y agoYes, much like AI was here for 40+ years with very little penetration into the mainstream. Technologies like this remain stagnant until the landscape is ready for them. In this case, the advent of AI and big data is what will make relationship data important. "Semantic web" as in human edited XML/HTML with semantic data embedded was never going to happen and was silly from the get-go. But RDF-style semantic data transferred between machines that infer meaning is an absolute certainty. It's one of those things that's forever a joke until suddenly it's not. There's a fortune of oil out there, but we have to get past the steam age first (and that'll come sooner than you think).
- wainstead 6y ago> Technologies like this remain stagnant until the landscape is ready for them. So true it should have a name, like kstenerud's Law or something.
- walterbell 6y agoTime travelers unite! Is JSON-LD the modern incarnation of semantic web? Which organizations are contributing to, or using, concise-encoding?