Editing

At work I’ve spent a significant amount of time over the past year working with the Blue Core team re-engineering some of the Sinopia tooling. Part of that has been ensuring that the RDF that is being stored in our PostgreSQL database as JSON uses the (brand new) bibframe-json JSON-LD context and schema. This may seem like a small thing, to store data consistently in a database. But unfortunately when you are talking about RDF data it’s not always a given. RDF supports many serialization formats, and even within a format, like JSON-LD, there are multiple ways to say the same thing. Some people think this is a strength of RDF in that it is a data model, rather than a particular data format. But when you are building tools to use the data it is extremely helpful to know the structure of the JSON when you want to parse it as JSON and use it, instead of needing to parse it as RDF and using the resulting graph. I’m really hopeful that the Blue Core project, in its use of bibframe-json, can…

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