Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Hypertext Application Language

[Mike Kelly <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Graham Klyne <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I'd be interested to hear how you think JSON-HAL compares with RDF in
> general (http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rdf) and the JSON-LD encoding of
> RDF in particular (http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/json-ld-syntax/).
>
> My immediate reaction is that there's a lot of overlap, even reinvention,
> here.  RDF has been in development for over 10 years, and there are now many
> and varied tools for working with it.
>

The obvious difference is complexity, HAL is considerably more simple
than JSON-LD; the HAL spec is tiny in comparison.

HAL does no impose any graph model on the resource state, it's just
plain JSON. The only triple'ish things in HAL are links and
embeddings.

Ian Davis actually produced a tool for converting RDF into HAL (with
some loss), but I can't find the link and not even sure if it is still
available.

Cheers,
M