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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 03:52:29 EDT Annah
   @bob @bigl0af json-LD is basically w3c cargo cult nonsense
   1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 11:23:47 EDT Verius

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      @maiyannah @bob I'm more positive, it isn't cargo cult because the central premise is really to translate W3C concepts (semantic web) to JSON and you can't really cargo cult your own goals. ;) But the big problem with JSON-LD IMHO is that it tries to bolt a schema onto something that's by design so simple it doesn't really support a schema. It's the same problem JSON Schema and all have: JSON simply has poor support for extensibility. Like it or not this is an area where XML actually shines. Namespaces (and XML in general) may be awkward to work with but when you want to represent stuff with schema's and lots of URI's XML has your back. That said I don't really see the practical use case of linked data in at least 90% of applications. Most of the time you're exposing an API for others to use, not some encyclopedia articles. And to use an API you're going to need more documentation than simply some links so you pretty much need an out-of-band document with usage instructions for the programmers on the other side anyway.