RDF WG agrees to publish JSON-LD

Hi all,

Some great news from yesterday, if you didn't see it on Twitter. The RDF
Working Group approved to publish both the JSON-LD Syntax and the
JSON-LD API as First Public Working Drafts through the W3C:

http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/meeting/2012-05-30#line0235

The intention is to take these documents all the way to REC (which is
basically W3C-speak for "world standard"). So, great news.

We have a number of things we're going to have to do in the next two
weeks to ensure that the transition will happen smoothly. The editors
will take care of most of it, but if you've taken part in the discussion
about JSON-LD, you will need to do one final thing. So, keep reading if
you've made a comment on the mailing list that may have resulted in a
spec change.

We need to do the following things in the next two weeks:

1. Apply all changes that members of the RDF WG requested (within
   reason) to the Syntax and API specs. Gregg and I will take care of
   this.
2. Change the copyright on the documents to the W3C Permissive
   copyright.
3. Finalize the documents and assert that no algorithms covered
   by known patents went into the document (everyone in the group
   that has said anything on the mailing list should do this).

So, if you've said anything on the mailing list - please be ready to do
#3. To be clear, the more people that contributed to the discussion that
agree to the patent-free assertion, the better off we are. All the
editors of the spec will make the assertion, which is all we really
need... but it never hurts to have folks like Josh Mandel also make the
patent-free assertion (he has been active in raising issues and
discussing them in the issue tracker).

Good news overall - and we should be on to the next phase of getting
JSON-LD standardized within the next two weeks. Great work to everyone
that has participated in the discussion and looking forward to more
insightful comments from the community on the specs as we take them to REC!

-- manu

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Received on Thursday, 31 May 2012 21:53:51 UTC