Re: Official response to RDF-ISSUE-133: Provisional support for Reverse properties

Hi,

Yes, I'm happy with the resolution. Thanks all!

Cheers,
Niklas



On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> Hi David, Niklas, and Gregg,
>
> This is an official response to RDF-ISSUE-133: Provisional support for
> Reverse properties, which is being tracked here:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/133
>
> and here
>
> https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/issues/221
>
> Each of you had requested that the group support reverse properties in
> JSON-LD. These have also been called inverse properties in the past. We
> added provisional support for it in the JSON-LD Last Call and received a
> number of responses in support of keeping the feature in future versions
> of the spec.
>
> The JSON-LD group discussed keeping the feature in the spec here:
>
> http://json-ld.org/minutes/2013-06-04/#topic-2
>
> and made the following resolution:
>
> RESOLVED: Support reverse properties in JSON-LD 1.0.
> http://json-ld.org/minutes/2013-06-04/#resolution-1
>
> Additionally, there were two follow up resolutions related to reverse
> properties here:
>
> RESOLVED: Allow "@container": "@set" for reverse properties.
> http://json-ld.org/minutes/2013-06-11/#resolution-1
>
> RESOLVED: Remove the @type restriction for reverse properties. This also
> means that a reverse property won't be implicitly type-coerced to @id
> anymore.
> http://json-ld.org/minutes/2013-06-11/#resolution-2
>
> The feature has been implemented and deemed to be stable. The JSON-LD
> group believes that this addresses your concerns with respect to this
> particular issue. Please respond to this email as soon as possible to
> let us know if we've addressed your concerns related to this issue to
> your satisfaction.
>
> -- manu
>
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